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In this Aug. 14, 2019 file photo, The Statue of Liberty is shown in New York. The Department of Homeland Security says New York residents will be cut off from ‘trusted traveler’ programs because of a state law that prevents immigration officials from accessing motor vehicle records. Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli says tens of thousands of New Yorkers will be inconvenienced by the action. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

DHS cuts New Yorkers off from ‘trusted traveler’ programs

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Martin O’Malley goes low by ranting and raving at Ken Cuccinelli in a bar

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Donald Trump, Mexico squash border surge after Democrats balk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ken Cuccinelli: Martin O’Malley launched bigoted tirade against Trump, immigration policy

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security testifies during House Oversight subcommittee hearing on deportation of critically ill children on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Martin O’Malley runs Ken Cuccinelli out of D.C. bar over Trump policies

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., steps out of a closed door meeting where former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor testifies as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls immigration chief Ken Cuccinelli a white supremacist

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security testifies during House Oversight subcommittee hearing on deportation of critically ill children at Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ken Cuccinelli blasts Congress failure to pass immigration law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Ken Cuccinelli: Birthright citizenship can be changed without amending Constitution

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Ken Cuccinelli backed for Homeland Security chief by high-profile conservatives

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli talks during a walk through of the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Laredo, Texas. Cuccinelli is emerging as the public face of the president’s hard-line immigration policies. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Cuccinelli emerging as Trump’s leading voice on immigration

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Central American migrants wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Dozens of immigrants lined up Friday at a major Tijuana border crossing waiting to learn how the Trump administration's radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum would affect the tens of thousands of migrants stuck on the Mexican border seeking refuge.(AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Trump official says asylum changes will drive down backlog

By COLLEEN LONG and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this Oct. 6, 2016, file photo, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks during a memorial service for former Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)

Madeleine Albright rips Ken Cuccinelli: ‘The Statue of Liberty is weeping’

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

In this June 2, 2009, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Emma Lazarus’ ‘huddled masses’ rejected as paupers in year poem added to Statue of Liberty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, children of mainly Latino immigrant parents hold signs in support of them and those individuals picked up during an immigration raid at a food processing plant, during a protest march to the Madison County Courthouse in Canton, Miss. Unauthorized workers are jailed or deported, while the managers and business owners who profit from their labor often aren’t. Under President Donald Trump, the numbers of owners and managers facing criminal charges for employing unauthorized workers have stayed almost the same. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

AP Analysis: Moving to make immigration whiter, wealthier

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Cuccinelli defends his Statue of Liberty poem revisions: It refers to ‘people coming from Europe’

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump official: Statue of Liberty’s poem is about Europeans

By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS - Associated Press

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

DHS approves policy to deter immigrants’ use of welfare

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

United States Border Patrol officers return a group of migrants back to the Mexico side of the border as Mexican immigration officials check the list, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Mexico has received some 20,000 asylum seekers returned to await U.S. immigration court dates under the program colloquially known as "remain in Mexico." (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

DHS: Crime-ridden neighborhoods not enough to earn asylum in U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, June 7, 2014, file photo, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli addresses the Virginia GOP Convention in Roanoke, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) ** FILE **

Ken Cuccinelli: Donald Trump’s ‘political hand grenades’ not racist

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this April 23, 2019, photo, Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Citizenship question will be on 2020 census, Ken Cuccinelli predicts

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times