In the five months that followed, Morgan became Trump’s most prolific media cheerleader on immigration. Morgan led the Border Patrol for the last four months of the Obama administration but lost his position within days of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. But Morgan is hardly the authoritative voice on border policy that Fox News personalities like Carlson have portrayed him as. (Judd has warmed on Morgan since Trump’s announcement, telling CNN that Morgan’s career as an investigator would serve him well at ICE.) Fox News was among the first outlets to report that Morgan had come under consideration for the ICE post.

Source: Huffington Post May 16, 2019 00:11 UTC