The administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees this week, according to three sources familiar with the matter, reports NBC News.
The sources said the Trump administration has a “centralized plan” and a list of people in high-level positions across every component of DHS who are to be targeted this week.
The firings will come on top of hundreds of more general cuts that began across DHS on Friday night, which targeted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
This week, the three sources told NBC News, career employees at high managerial levels, namely Senior Executive Service and General Schedule 15 employees, may be removed from agencies across DHS.
Moreover, the issue is not to reduce the size of the workforce, but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.
DHS is the primary agency tasked with enforcing US immigration law.