{"id":66548,"date":"2026-02-17T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/top-dhs-spokesperson-to-exit-role-amid-growing-outrage-over-trumps-ice-raids\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:08","slug":"top-dhs-spokesperson-to-exit-role-amid-growing-outrage-over-trumps-ice-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/top-dhs-spokesperson-to-exit-role-amid-growing-outrage-over-trumps-ice-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Top DHS spokesperson to exit role amid growing outrage over Trump\u2019s ICE raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia McLaughlin is leaving the Department of Homeland Security in the coming week, the agency confirmed<\/p>\n<p>Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s top spokesperson and one of the most visible defenders of the Trump administration\u2019s deportation raids, is leaving the agency in the coming week, the department confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin\u2019s impending exit, comes at one of the most fraught moments in the department\u2019s history. Public support for the administration\u2019s immigration enforcement push <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trumps-immigration-approval-drops-record-low-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-01-26\/\">has fallen to its lowest point<\/a> since Trump took office, after a series of violent confrontations in US cities and the fatal shootings of two US citizens \u2013 Alex Pretti and Renee Good \u2013 by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/tricia-mclaughlin-trump-dhs-exit-role\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia McLaughlin is leaving the Department of Homeland Security in the coming week, the agency confirmed Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s top spokesperson and one of the most visible defenders of the Trump administration\u2019s deportation raids, is leaving the agency in the coming week, the department confirmed. McLaughlin\u2019s impending exit, comes at one &#8230; <a title=\"Top DHS spokesperson to exit role amid growing outrage over Trump\u2019s ICE raids\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/top-dhs-spokesperson-to-exit-role-amid-growing-outrage-over-trumps-ice-raids\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top DHS spokesperson to exit role amid growing outrage over Trump\u2019s ICE raids\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}