Former President Barack Obama's Homeland Security secretary criticizes Congress for letting the Lankford-Sinema-Murphy bipartisan border bill fail, stating that politics is hindering progress in the migrant crisis. He also addresses concerns about President Biden's awareness of the border crisis compared to the Obama administration.
Former President Barack Obama 's Homeland Security secretary told Fox News Wednesday that Congress should never have let the Lankford-Sinema-Murphy bipartisan border bill fail and that its demise proves that politics is allowing the 'perfect be the enemy of the good' in the migrant crisis . Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson was pressed on whether President Biden is late or neglectful in his awareness of the border crisis compared to the Obama administration a decade ago.
Johnson said the national security officials currently expressing alarm about border security also work for Biden, therefore showing that it is a concern for the incumbent president. 'When I was in office, we were very focused on what I referred to as ‘special interest aliens' – someone who crosses our southern border from the other hemisphere,' Johnson said. 'And we have made great strides in detecting someone who is making their way from, say, the Middle East or the Far East, enters this hemisphere through South America and begins working their way up nort
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