Trump Taps DHS Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Marine Gen. John Kelly as the next Homeland Security secretary, several media outlets, including the Washington Post (here), reported on Dec. 7. Most recently, Kelly served as chief of U.S. Southern Command from October 2012…
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to February 2016, according to his DOD bio (here). Kelly commanded Marines deployed to Iraq in 2008, after an earlier tour in Iraq as an assistant division commander from 2002 to 2004, and was legislative assistant to the Marine Corps Commandant from 2004 to 2007, according to the bio. In 1999, Kelly worked as the special assistant to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Kelly delivered testimony (here) to the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2015 that discussed concern over vulnerabilities on the U.S.-Mexico border, namely the threat of terrorists taking advantage of human smuggling routes. The testimony also highlighted the U.S. Southern Command's cooperation with DHS and CBP. Kelly is currently a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (here).