Kirstjen Nielsen Out!

Another one fired out the cannon. Kirstjen Nielsen is gone.

Sundays are never boring.

Homeland Security Kristjen Nielsen is fired out the cannon. The embattled law enforcer submitted her resignation today.

Donald J. Trump announced in a tweet on Sunday. The Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will serve as temporary DHS secretary until a replacement.

Wow, another high ranking official in Trump's first term out. Nielsen was the successor to John Kelly, the embattled chief of staff who left DHS.

....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2019

Nielsen's departure is a part of the massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by Trump adviser and far-white extremist Stephen Miller. It's unclear whether Nielsen was aware that her days were numbered at the White House.

Nielsen was ambushed by protesters while eating. People were hammering her for stripping migrant children from their parents. She also was being called an idiot after she failed to keep an eye on the migrants who died in her detention camps.

Rumors were going around that Nielsen was getting frustrated with Trump's inner circle.

National Security Adviser John Bolton and John Kelly had a heated disagreement over Nielsen's approach during an October 2018 policy meeting, after which Bolton went to Trump to protest what Nielsen was doing.

Once Kelly left the White House at the end of last year, Nielsen's days appeared to be numbered. She had expected to be pushed out last November, but her exit never materialized. And during the government shutdown over Trump's push for funding for a border wall, Nielsen's stock inside the White House even appeared to rise.

Trump nominated McAleenan as CBP commissioner on the first day of his presidency, but McAleenan as not confirmed by the Senate until March of 2018. He was appointed CBP deputy commissioner in November 2014 by President Barack Obama.

Nielsen's departure is the latest staffing shakeup in the department, which was founded to combat terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

On Friday, Trump confirmed he had withdrawn the nomination of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitiello to become the permanent head of the agency, telling reporters that "Ron’s a good man, but we’re going in a tougher direction, we want to go in a tougher direction." Administration sources tell Fox News that the withdrawal of Vitiello's nomination was the first step in Trump's plan to control the border crisis.