head the agency in August. He previously served as chief of the US Border Patrol and acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

Last Friday, President Donald Trump said he wanted to go in a "tougher direction" -- a move that came at the urging of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.

Read Moreinvolving a Chinese solar company -- made its way on Fox News. (Jones also gave Bundy a platform to falsely claim that he was misquoted after Bundy's racist comments about “the Negro” came to light.)

Jones' work is also a fixture on popular conservative website Drudge Report, whose operator Matt Drudge declared 2013 “the year of Alex Jones.” During a two-year period started in April 2011, Drudge linked to Jones 244 times.

Jerad Miller was a fan of Alex Jones, according to his Facebook page. In a February 2013 posting, Miller told people to read Jones' website, writing, “infowars.com get informed or get stupid” :

Miller frequently shared content from Jones on Facebook, including conspiracy theories relating to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FEMA-related gun confiscation, and the