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Had a replacement on the horizon so far in the west wing. so it will be interesting to see who it is the president picks next. but when it came down to mcaleenan, though at times the president praised him, he was never really someone who gained president trump's trust. the president often lashed out at him blaming him for border numbers and of course in turn, kevin mcaleenan didn't like the hard-liners that the president hired to work not only in the department of homeland security, but also he was dealing with people inside the west wing like stephen miller who were really trying to run dhs p...

Submitted his resignation to the white house. he is the fourth person to serve in that position for president trump. here with more tonight is cnn's kaitlan collins. kaitlan, good evening to you. what's behind the latest high-profile departure? >> reporter: well, don, i got to say it's not that surprising to people in the white house who never thought kevin mcaleenan was going to get the permanent job. but of course this resignation is coming after he's been in that acting position for several dozen -- hundreds of days now, in this position, never really had a replacement on the horizon so far...

Permanent. >> well, ironically, he's done the one thing that matters most to the president. the always extreme proposals ta came out of these meetings with president trump and the white house that expressed the degree of frustration he had at the border, we can remember back in may, there was a peak and 144,000 people being taken into custody and a single month and macalini driven those numbers down. those levels and border numbers are fallen by nearly two-thirds. the thing that driven the president to a desperate place is now finally becoming this kind of bright spot that he's pointing to and...

We sort of don't necessarily think about that group in that sense, but that's one of the reasons -- he's obviously an immigration hawk himself, but that certainly energizes the base. and you saw him when he went to fayetteville, he essentially told those folks democrats want to change your way of life and he said that he's the only person standing in the way of democrats taking your way of life from you. it's an identity politics play and it works. it very much energizes this group and it makes them have an emotional attachment to this president. and it's very powerful. >> which is why you saw...

>> they say they agree, the department could get congress to do their job. >> perhaps we could agree on some things with aoc. you want to get rid of i.c.e.? let us all work more efficiently again. so who knows? maybe we could find some common ground there. >> this as dhs releases new border numbers. every engines are down a whopping 20% over the last few months alone. in may, about 144,000 migrants were picked up by border control along the southern border while in june that number dropped down to just 104,000. some lawmakers say i.c.e. agents used facial recognition recognition technology to ...