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The top official overseeing the Department of Homeland Security’s data and statistics publicly announced his resignation over the weekend with a letter that ripped the Trump administration’s war on immigrants, facts and the federal government.
Marc Rosenblum, who served as executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, wrote in a LinkedIn post on Sunday that it “will come as no surprise” that he’s “thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration.”
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“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,” he wrote.
“I’m also thrilled that my next role will allow me to continue working on immigration data and immigration policy, with goals that actually align with my values and those of most other Americans,” he continued, without sharing what that role will be.
Rosenblum spent more than 10 years with DHS in the first Trump administration and under Joe Biden. He also served as a member of then-incoming President Barack Obama’s Immigration Policy Transition Team in 2009, according to the Migration Policy Institute, where he spent two years as deputy director.
“Marc was exactly what every American should want in a career public servant,” Luis Miranda, a top DHS spokesman during the Biden years, told Wired.
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