2020年，民主党总统候选人、蒙大拿州州长史蒂夫·布洛克猛烈抨击唐纳德·特朗普总统提名领导美国公民和移民服务局，将肯·库奇内利的当选与让俄罗斯总统监督美国选举安全相提并论。

       布洛克指出，他和弗吉尼亚州共和党人库奇内利同时担任各自州的检察长面试随着福克斯周日新闻。布洛克说:“让他负责移民事务就像让[俄罗斯总统普京负责选举安全一样。”。

       多个美国情报机构和特别顾问罗伯特·穆勒都得出结论，俄罗斯政府参与了一场影响和操纵2016年总统选举的运动。这次行动的主要目的是偏袒特朗普，贬低他的民主党对手、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿。立法者和情报机构警告说，俄罗斯传播虚假信息和影响美国选举的努力正在进行。

       蒙大拿州州长随后批评特朗普政府极具争议的移民政策。

       “我不同意的是，我们正在利用移民来实质上分裂这个国家，”他说。布洛克说特朗普一直在利用他的强硬政策“不仅拆散家庭，还拆散这个国家。”

       法宝指定的Cuccinelli将于6月份出任美国移民局代理局长，但他尚未得到参议院的确认。目前还不清楚这位有争议的保守派能否赢得共和党参议员的支持，提名他来清理立法机构。这位移民局长此前攻击了参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(米奇·麦康奈尔，肯塔基州共和党人)和其他共和党人，宣扬更加保守的立场。

       得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁在两个选举周期中领导他的政党竞选团队，他说:“他在职业生涯中花了相当多的时间攻击参议院的共和党人，所以我觉得他投身于寻求参议院的认可是一个奇怪的位置，告诉政客6月初，在特朗普正式提名库奇内利担任该角色之前。“如果他被提名，他不太可能得到确认，”科宁说。

       上周，库辛内利介绍了特朗普政府的新规定，该规定将大力支持旨在获得绿卡和美国签证的富裕移民。该政策将审查申请人的财务状况，并取消美国移民局认为可能使用移民目前可合法获得的社会保障服务的个人的资格，如食品券、医疗保健和住房补贴。

       正如许多批评家指出的那样，新的强硬移民政策与纽约港自由女神像下面浮雕的标志性十四行诗背道而驰，Cucinnelli争辩说这首诗只是为了欢迎欧洲移民到美国

       “给我你疲惫的，你可怜的，你拥挤的渴望自由呼吸的人群，你拥挤的海岸上可怜的垃圾。爱玛·拉札勒斯在1883年写的这首诗写道:“把这些无家可归者、暴风雨般的东西送给我。”。早在1903年，它就被首次放置在标志性的纽约雕像下方的一块匾上，这座雕像一直与欢迎移民入境联系在一起。

       “给我你的疲惫和你的穷人，他们可以独立生活，不会成为公众的负担，”库辛内利在周二接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时修改了这首诗的歌词。

       “当然，这首诗指的是那些来自欧洲的人，他们在欧洲有基于阶级的社会，”他在后面的片段中说。
 

DONALD TRUMP'S PICK TO LEAD IMMIGRATION AGENCY 'LIKE PUTTING PUTIN IN CHARGE OF ELECTION SECURITY,' PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL STEVE BULLOCK SAYS

       2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, Governor Steve Bullock of Montana, slammed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, comparing Ken Cuccinelli's selection to having Russia's president oversee America's election security.

       Pointing out that he and Cuccinelli, a Virginia Republican, had both served as attorneys general of their respective states at the same time, Bullock harshly criticized Trump's pick during an interview with Fox News Sunday. "Putting him in charge of immigration would be like putting [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in charge of election security," Bullock said.

       Multiple U.S. intelligence agencies and special counsel Robert Mueller all concluded that the Russian government engaged in a campaign to influence and manipulate the 2016 presidential election. The primary goal of the operation was to favor Trump and disparage his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Lawmakers and intelligence agencies have warned that Russian efforts to spread disinformation and influence U.S. elections are ongoing.

       The Montana governor then criticized the Trump administration's highly controversial immigration policy.

       "What I disagree with is, we're using immigration to essentially divide this country," he said. Bullock said Trump has been using his hard-line policies to "not only rip families apart, but this country apart."

       Trump appointed Cuccinelli to be the acting director of the USCIS's back in June, but he has not been confirmed by the Senate. It's unclear if the controversial conservative would be able to win the support of GOP senators for his nomination to clear the legislative body. The immigration chief has previously attacked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, and other Republicans, promoting even more conservative positions.

       "He's spent a fair amount of his career attacking Republicans in the Senate, so it strikes me as an odd position for him to put himself in to seek Senate confirmation," Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who led his party's campaign arm for two election cycles, told Politico in early June, before Trump formally tapped Cuccinelli for the role ."It's unlikely he's going to be confirmed if he is nominated," Cornyn said.

       Last week, Cucinnelli introduced the Trump administration's new rule that would strongly favor wealthier immigrants aiming to secure green cards and visas to the U.S. The policy would scrutinize applicants' finances and disqualify individuals the USCIS deem would potentially use social security services that are currently legally available to immigrants, such as food stamps, healthcare and housing subsidies.

       As many critics pointed out that the new hard-line immigration policy went counter to the iconic sonnet embossed below the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, Cucinnelli argued that the poem was only intended to welcome European immigrants to the U.S.

       "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me," the poem, penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883, says. It was first placed on a plaque below the iconic New York statue, which has long been associated with welcoming immigrants to the country, back in 1903.

       "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge," Cucinnelli revised the poem's words in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

       "Of course that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies," he said later in the segment.