Jeh Johnson: ‘By Any Measure’ 4,000 Arrests in a Day on Our Southern Border ‘Is a Crisis’

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JOHNSON: "Brian, by any measure, 4,000 arrest in a day, 100,000 in a month, that’s the population of the city of Albany, New York that suddenly shows up on our southern border. In one month is a crisis. And it’s a crisis because it overwhelms our border patrol and our immigration officials’ ability to deal with it. And it’s a crisis because you have to absorb that population somehow into southern border towns. And so it overwhelms the humanitarian effort on our southern border, it overwhelms our DHS personnel. And frankly, it all emanates from the crisis that’s been going on for some time in Central America. That’s the most violent region of our world right now. And so one of the things I have been saying continually, publicly, is that if we are going to be able to deal with this problem, we have to address it at the source. A lot of people don’t want to hear that. They want quick, easy answers. They want some legal lever to pull to do something dramatic and different. But to fix this problem emanating from Central America, we have got make the long-term investment in addressing the poverty and violence in that — in those nations. It can be done, a planned Colombia, but it requires a sustained political commitment through I expect multiple administrations.”