(HotAir)
Ed’s most recent post focused on Trump DHS Secretary saying we have a crisis at the border. Today she was backed up by former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson who served under the Obama administration. Johnson appeared on Morning Joe and said he can’t imagine how overtaxed the system is now given the sheer number of people arriving at the border every day.
“When I was in office at Kirstjen Nielsen’s job, at her desk, I’d get to work around 6:30 in the morning and there’d be my intelligence book, sitting on my desk,” Johnson said. He continued, “The PDB and also the apprehension numbers from the day before. And I’d look at them every morning…and my staff will tell you if it was under 1,000 apprehensions the day before that was a relatively good number. And if it was above 1,000 that was a relatively bad number and I was going to be in a bad mood the whole day.
“On Tuesday there were 4,000 apprehensions. I know that a thousand overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like, so we are truly in a crisis.”
Clearly, Johnson agrees that what we’re seeing at the border right now is a genuine crisis and not, as many Democrats have claimed, a manufactured crisis. He disagrees with President Trump that a wall would solve the problem but at least he’s broken out of the left-wing talking points that no longer have any connection to reality. Read more