Tricia McLaughlin, a leading public defender of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, is leaving the Department of Homeland Security amid growing public backlash and internal turbulence.
Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is set to leave the Department of Homeland Security next week, according to two officials, amid declining public support for the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. McLaughlin, a prominent defender of the crackdown under Donald Trump, had planned her departure since December but delayed it following high-profile incidents, and exits as the agency faces funding uncertainty and internal criticism, with a recent poll showing 58 percent of Americans believe the immigration enforcement effort has gone too far.