During the first Trump administration, Scott Shuchart very publicly quit a staff position at DHS and engaged in a very public media tour attacking President Trump’s border policies.

As documented in his notable employment history above, Scott Shuchart was employed by left-wing organizations such as the Center for American Progress following his departure from DHS.  From this position, Shuchart became a leading advocate against President Trump’s policies.

To document Scott Shuchart's anti-Trump activities comprehensively would be prohibitively lengthy, but a 2019 PBS interview is representative of Shuchart’s attitude. (source)

During this interview, Shuchart:

• Accused the Trump administration of attempting “to manufacture something that would qualify as a crisis” with respect to the southern border.
• Accused the Trump administration of incompetence, claiming “It’s not clear that it would need to be a crisis if it were managed appropriately.”
• Attacked the Border Patrol, claiming “there’s a long history of Border Patrol using questionable levels of force.”
• In response to an incident of a mob of illegal aliens crossing the border, Shuchart again criticized Border Patrol’s use of force, saying “it's certainly the case that Border Patrol has looked to force-related solutions at times where civil rights officials and other outside observers have encouraged them to look for ways of de-escalating conflicts.”
• Characterized the Trump Administration’s immigration policies as “nonsense on stilts.”

This is a small sample of a much longer list of similar claims Scott Shuchart made during the Trump Administration, but from this interview it is clear – Shuchart is forcefully opposed to the Trump immigration agenda.

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While some of Scott Shuchart’s policy disagreements with the Trump Administration are documented above, one comment he made during his media tour was so grotesque that it merits special notice.

In January 2019, Mr. Shuchart appeared on the left-wing “Bill Press Show.”  During this appearance, he accused the Trump administration of “Nazi sympathies.”

The Bill Press Show - January 7, 2019 (youtube.com) (48:55)

The other thing they want to do is deprive people of asylum and other humanitarian protections, the thing that we committed to at the end of World War II, as part of the modern world order, and I wonder if that is kind of a piece, both with their Nazi sympathies, and with their intent to disaffiliate from NATO and all the other institutions that keep the world together.

While Scott Shuchart has said many things that make him unfit for the civil service, claiming that the Trump Administration had “Nazi sympathies” is simply beyond the pale.

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Scott Shuchart lists himself a “Deputy Boiler Room Director” for several Democrat campaigns between 2016 and 2020.  While most of these would have occurred during his time away from government, his stint working on “voter protection” issues in Ohio in 2016 was while he was employed during his first DHS stint.

Shuchart’s political activity goes beyond merely havingpolitical preferences – he is an active partisan, political hack.

Scott Shuchart currently serves as the Acting Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs and Policy at ICE, and is one of the most notorious bureaucrats working to promote a social services for illegal aliens agenda. From 2010 to 2018 he was the senior advisor to the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at DHS, where he was tasked with covering immigration enforcement, detention and custody, and border security, with an emphasis on using data to identify civil rights and civil liberties violations.

Social Posts Reveal Open Borders Activism:

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Shuchart has held numerous positions at Kids in Need of Defense, also known as KIND, since 2018, where he worked alongside notorious activist bureaucrat Claire Trickler-McNulty – at one point even serving as a senior director for legal strategy.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) is the preeminent international nongovernmental organization devoted to the protection of unaccompanied and separated children. KIND envisions a world in which every unaccompanied child on the move has access to legal representation and has their rights and well-being protected as they migrate alone in search of safety. Through strategic partnerships, KIND provides pro bono legal representation for forcibly displaced children across the United States, and we work to replicate this same model abroad. We partner with governments, international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector to instill a shared commitment to the protection of unaccompanied and separated children through training, technical assistance, and capacity strengthening

In Another PBS interview, this time on PBS Frontline in July 2019, Shuchart again accused the Trump administration of “manufacturing” the crisis at the border:

“Well, I mean, they manufactured the travel ban crisis, obviously. The issue with people coming and seeking asylum from the Northern Triangle follows—we can look at the graph. It follows an interesting pattern where there’s sort of a surge—so the problem really dates to about 2014, 2015 of a very much larger number of children, particularly younger children, and family units coming in a way that the government wasn’t very skilled at addressing the needs of.

In 2019, Shuchart was awarded the 2019 Ridenhour Prize for truth-telling for his role as a “whistleblower” about the impacts of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.

“Dr. Scott Allen, Dr. Pamela McPherson, and Scott Shuchart are co-recipients of the 2019 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling. In describing this year’s winners, the selection committee stated, ‘Unlike any other time since Watergate, this nation needs courageous whistleblowers whose fidelity to truth outweighs their own financial interests. Today three such individuals have emerged to alert us to the abuse that children and families are experiencing as a result of policies and practices on our borders. We honor all three for their patriotism and integrity.’ Scott Shuchart publicly resigned his job as a senior advisor for the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, when it became clear to him that the department’s family separation policy violated the civil and human rights of migrants and asylum seekers”

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