A veteran of President Donald Trump’s first administration is set to oversee policy decisions within the Department of Homeland Security following the Senate’s approval.
The Senate voted 49-46 to confirm Robert Law as DHS’s undersecretary for policy, an influential role that coordinates decisions across the department and its many agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration. Law has been working as a senior counselor at DHS this year.
He previously was a senior policy adviser and policy chief at US Citizenship and Immigration Services and was director of the homeland security section of the conservative America ...