India, Feb. 18 -- Leadership changes at the Department of Homeland Security are rarely met without attention and the resignation of the Department of Homeland Security's chief spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, has come at a time when the issue of immigration policy has come under the microscope. The resignation of the official was not simply a matter of a person moving on to another position and the issue of immigration policy has been a polarizing issue in the nation's capital.

Who is Tricia McLaughlin? She is currently serving as the assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, a highly visible post before entering DHS, she was employed by the State and Treasury departments during the early years of the Trump administration. She later...