Trump may create an immigration czar; Kris Kobach could be it

Groups that want President-elect Donald Trump to make good on his campaign promise to rein in illegal immigration in the United States are lobbying for him to create a new position: immigration czar.

That would put one person in charge of an issue that impacts a dozen departments and agencies, including homeland security, state, justice, labor, housing, and health and human services.

“We have been pushing them,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for greater immigration enforcement. “The idea has been percolating in a number of places.”

One name that has been mentioned: Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state and a member of Trump’s transition team who has been considered for a of couple jobs so far. A so-called czar based in the White House would not need Senate confirmation, which would be helpful to Kobach, whose hardline immigration views could lead to problems during a nomination fight.

“It’s designed to put Kris Kobach in a position of authority,” said Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, an immigration advocacy group.

The idea of a czar is not new: President Barack Obama appointed experts to handle the Ebola response, the financial crisis and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

“It's a terrible idea,” said Mark Rozell, dean and public policy professor at George Mason University’s school of policy, government and international affairs who has studied the phenomenon and wrote a 2012 book, The President’s Czars: Undermining Congress and the Constitution.

“Czars exist to enable presidents to evade democratic accountability and controls on executive action build into a system of separated powers,” Rozell said. “These positions are nothing more than an end-run around the normal lawmaking process.”

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Lol we are fucked if that happens. I do not think it will.

Are we really still talking about this embodiment of evil? He had such a malicious face along with the ventriloquist dummy looking Jeff Sessions.

WTF, Czar, ?? kinda stupid, ...

This guy just will not go away!

these guys will soon be forgotten

piss off Kobach go back to Kansas, haha

They want a czar position now? Can their ties to Russia BE anymore apparent?

I honestly cannot take this article as fact.

Seems like a bunch of right wing fantasies... Let's wait for actual news.

Is the source credible? McClatchyDC