Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who made a national name for himself peddling conspiracies about voter fraud, has presented the White House with a list of demands to become President Donald Trump’s “immigration czar,” according to a report Monday by The New York Times. He also wants to be able to take weekends off to go home to Kansas. Trump has reportedly been mulling the idea of naming an immigration czar for more than a month amid continued frustrations about undocumented immigration at the southern U.S. border. The president recently shook up the list of senior officials tasked with carrying out his wishes, including by pushing out former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. He’s named a slew of hard-liners to replace officials that resisted his border policies in an attempt to see a more forceful crackdown on immigration.

Source: Huffington Post May 21, 2019 03:45 UTC