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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Marine Gen. John Kelly, the former U.S. Southern Command chief and the military's longest-serving general, to run the Department of Homeland Security, two sources close to the transition say.

With his experience leading military missions in South and Central America, Kelly is expected to match Trump's zeal for locking down the U.S.-Mexico border and to echo the president-elect's stance on treatment of suspected terrorists. As the leader of DHS, the 66-year-old general would also be tasked with executing Trump's ambitious, controversial immigration agenda.

Kelly told the Senate Armed Services Committee last year that human smuggling routes "are a potential vulnerability to our homeland," and he told Defense One in 2014 that a lack of military engagement in Central America had created a vacuum that benefited criminal networks. He is also known for opposing the Obama administration's efforts to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.

One of Kelly's sons was killed in action while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2010. During the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, Kelly derided "an enemy that is as savage as any that ever walked the earth."

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