Fmr DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: In 2014 ‘We Expanded Family Detention’

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JOHNSON: "Lesson learned. Illegal migration reacts sharply to perceived changes in enforcement policy in the short term, but it always reverts back longer term to the longer term trends given the underlying conditions, the so called push factors in Central America. That's what President Trump and his administration have seen now over the last year. The numbers are 40 or 50 thousand per month and they're obviously very frustrated by that. So in 2014, to deal with the spike then with the families, we did a number of things, including working with the government of Mexico and obtaining their cooperation on securing their southern border. But we also expanded family detention, which was, I freely admit, controversial."