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President-Elect Trump Picks a Retired Marine to Manage U.S. Borders and the TSA

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: President-Elect Trump will reportedly nominate retired Major Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Department of Defense

Skift Take

Prospective nominee Major Gen. John Kelly as Department of Homeland Security secretary certainly has experience in border protection and could play a key role if President-Elect Trump cracks down on immigration, illegal and legal. Kelly's views on airport security and the TSA have yet to be articulated but privatization efforts would not be surprising.

If President-Elect Donald Trump indeed builds a wall -- or a fence in some parts -- across the U.S.-Mexican border, his prospective pick to run the Department of Homeland Security would be heavily involved. Trump has tapped retired Marine Gen. John Kelly as DHS secretary, according to published reports. A four-star general, like prospective Defense secretary James Mattis, Kelly's most recent assignment, which ended in February, was heading the U.S. Southern Command, which over

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