The Department of Homeland Security stated that it had no records of communications between Acting Secretary McAleenan and the White House regarding a April 2019 meeting in which President Trump' allegedly offered to pardon Mr. McAleenan is he were prosecuted for illegally closing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Like many norms in the Trump era, the prohibition on federal employees engaging in political activity while at work has been routinely tested by this administration.

FOIA to DHS seeking communications related to President Trump’s April 2019 meeting with Acting DHS Sec McAleenan, in which President Trump allegedly offered to pardon Mr. McAleenan if he were prosecuted for illegally closing the U.S.-Mexico border.