Cuccinelli says Trump didn't send wrong message releasing illegal immigrant employer

Senior Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli said Monday he doesn’t think President Trump sent the wrong message by giving his first prison commutation to a man who was one of the nation’s largest employers of illegal immigrants.

The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a hardliner on immigration policy, said the Trump administration’s message is one of toughness, not leniency, after raids this month of seven food processing plants in Mississippi resulted in 680 arrests.