Ken Cuccinelli
Cuccinelli was deputy secretary of homeland security from November 2019 until January 2021. He also served as acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
During his tenure at the Department of Homeland Security, Cuccinelli helped administer and protect the integrity of America’s immigration system. As director of USCIS, he combated asylum fraud and ensured self-relian ...
Ken's episode appearances
Episode 180: “America’s Open Borders” with Ken Cuccinelli and Russ Vought
“No borders. No walls. No USA at all.” Chant by Antifa rioters marching in the streets of Denver. With Ukraine and Russia dominating the headlines, America seems to have lost focus on the border – and the war – that really counts.It’s not Ukraine, it’s America’s southern border with Mexico. The Biden Administration seems simply to have “opened it up.”Completely. And what’s happening is an ongoing catastrophe that’s fueling illegal immigration, human trafficking and drug smuggling. People from over 100 countries around the world have crossed the border illegally in the last year.We need to focus on this war on our own border here, at home – a strange war where it seems our adversary is our own federal government. What the Biden administration is doing is not incompetence at protecting our border, it’s a deliberate policy to open it up.But we don’t have to wait for a change in the Administration. “A plain reading of the Constitution gives border state governors war powers under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 to interdict and remove illegal aliens to […]
about Ken
Cuccinelli was deputy secretary of homeland security from November 2019 until January 2021. He also served as acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
During his tenure at the Department of Homeland Security, Cuccinelli helped administer and protect the integrity of America’s immigration system. As director of USCIS, he combated asylum fraud and ensured self-reliance among America’s immigrants. After being appointed deputy secretary, he made reforming America’s immigration system a top priority. He worked to combat human trafficking, was an original member of the White House COVID Task Force, and oversaw the department’s efforts to safeguard federal personnel and buildings during the 2020 riots in American cities.
Cuccinelli previously served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. During his time as attorney general, he was best known for his efforts to rein in the illegal actions of the Obama administration. However, he also led the Commonwealth of Virginia in fighting human trafficking, achieved record enforcement against gangs, fighting health care fraud, and prosecuting child predators. Cuccinelli also served in the Senate of Virginia from 2002 to 2010 and has practiced law for over 25 years.
He earned a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Virginia, a law degree from Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and a masters degree in international commerce and policy from George Mason University.
Cuccinelli and his wife, Teiro, grew up and live in Virginia and have seven children, one son-in-law, and the world’s two cutest grandchildren.