There’s little certainly around who would take over for Nielsen should she get canned. As the Post notes, there hasn’t been a DHS deputy secretary since February. That means the likeliest replacements would come from further down the latter in DHS. Last week Politico mentioned that Trump has a favorite from outside his administration though — Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, who lost out on the gig back in 2016. Problem is, Trump knows the anti-immigrant crusader is not well-liked in Washington, D.C. And even a Senate that routinely kowtows to Trump might not confirm the man who was ordered this summer to take law classes after embarrassing himself in federal court.