President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kirstjen Nielsen, ignored her role in former President George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina that allowed more than 30,000 illegal aliens to enter the United States to take blue-collar jobs from suffering Americans.
Before joining the Trump administration as a deputy to Chief of Staff General John Kelly, Nielsen worked as the Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security under Bush and co-authored the “Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned” report.
While working for Bush, the administration — immediately following Katrina in 2005 — temporarily dismantled pro-American worker laws, such as suspending sanctions for employers who willingly hire illegal aliens, and waving the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which mandated that federal contractors pay workers the average regional wage.
The impact of Bush’s decision had a devastating effect on working-class Americans who saw their jobs wash away with Katrina, as Breitbart News previously reported. The results amounted to an estimated 30,000 illegal aliens entering the Gulf Coast region to take thousands of American blue-collar jobs that would have otherwise gone to impacted working-class Americans.
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