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Pedro Camacho

Trump's New National Security Adviser Once Introduced a Bill to Send the U.S. Army to Mexico to Fight Cartels

Trump's new national security advisor, Michael Waltz (Credit: Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

President-elect Donald Trump has been busy starting to fill out the boxes of his upcoming cabinet since his electoral victory. In the span of two days, he has already anointed ex-ICE director Tom Homan as his "Border Czar", Stephen Miller as his White House deputy chief of staff for policy and is expected to confirm Republican Senator Marco Rubio as his Secretary of State, as well as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

There are several similarities among Trump's new cabinet members. One has to do with their loyalty to the president, a factor that will be crucial, according to those closest to the Republican. Another has to do with their hardline positions on immigration enforcement, an issue that became the biggest tentpole of his campaign.

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