Top DHS official Marc Rosenblum resigns protesting Trump immigration policies

A longtime Department of Homeland Security official has resigned, citing the Trump administration's "brazen corruption" and the "war on immigrants."

Over the weekend, Marc Rosenblum, who serves as executive director for the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, announced he would end his decade of service at the DHS, Wired reported Monday.

"I'm sad to suspend my career in public service and leave my amazing team," Rosenblum wrote in a LinkedIn post. "But it will come as no surprise that I'm thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration.

"Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change," Rosenblum wrote.

Rosenblum spent years working to improve transparency at DHS, and spearheaded efforts to publish information on immigration arrests and deportations for the first time. But after the Trump administration launched its sweeping deportation efforts, DHS stopped publishing data on ICE detentions, Customs and Border Protection encounters, and deportations—gutting the department's transparency and undermining accountability. Rosenblum told Wired that he and his co-workers had faced "a challenging and often hostile work environment."

In his LinkedIn post, Rosenblum said he was taking a month off, but looking forward to taking up a new role that would "actually align with my values and those of most other Americans."

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Trump Veers Off Script During Eulogy for Sen. Lindsey Graham

The president couldn't resist taking issue with his speechwriters again Tuesday—even as he was in the midst of delivering a eulogy for late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

Graham's funeral drew TV personalities, top lawmakers, and foreign heads of state, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Yet Donald Trump didn't hesitate to veer wildly off course from his pre-written remarks while recalling Graham's life before the elite crowd, pushing back on one critical detail: Graham's popularity.

"Virtually everyone—Republican or Democrat—liked Lindsey," said Trump before jumping from his script. "Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. Not everybody. He was a tough cookie, OK? I have to be—I have to veer from this for a second.

"He was a tough cookie, Darline, but he was beautiful," Trump added, addressing Graham's younger sister and temporary legislative successor, Darline Graham Nordone.

Graham passed away on July 11 after what his office described as a "brief and sudden illness." The next morning, a preliminary medical report found that Graham had died from a tear in his aorta due to the hardening of his arteries.

During his brief remarks before the mourning crowd, Trump acknowledged that he and Graham had become close friends during his time in politics, fondly recounting the time he publicized Graham's cell phone number during a heated debate during the 2016 presidential election.

"He said, 'I had that number for 20 years.' His phone totally—I don't know what he did with it. But it exploded. That was the beginning of friendship in a way," Trump said. "But it was Lindsey who had the last laugh, because while I blew up his phone for one day, we became great friends and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years."

He also reminisced about Graham's warmongering, sharing with the assembly that Graham "never saw a war he didn't like."

"He felt in his bones that our destiny is to win, and that his job was to do everything he could to ensure our enemies would lose," Trump said.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Trump's Mail-In Voting Restrictions

In a blow to voters everywhere, a federal appeals court just made it easier for President Donald Trump to suppress mail-in voting. The midterms are three months away.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed