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Chad Wolf Becomes Fifth Person to Head Homeland Security Dept. Under Trump

HeadlineNov 14, 2019

In Washington, D.C., Chad Wolf was sworn in Wednesday as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He’s the fifth person to lead the agency, which oversees U.S. immigration enforcement, under President Trump. Wolf previously served as chief of staff to then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as she enforced the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at the southern border, which saw thousands of migrant children separated from their parents.

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