{"id":1430911,"date":"2022-04-11T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1430911"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:44:43","slug":"former-obama-sec-of-homeland-security-says-biden-believes-no-level-of-defense-can-stop-surge-of-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-obama-sec-of-homeland-security-says-biden-believes-no-level-of-defense-can-stop-surge-of-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama Sec Of Homeland Security Says Biden Believes \u2018No Level Of Defense\u2019 Can Stop Surge Of Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-obama-sec-of-homeland-security-says-biden-believes-no-level-of-defense-can-stop-surge-of-illegal-immigration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1430911&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-185208463.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, Jeh Johnson, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under former President Barack Obama, said that President Biden believes there is \u201cno level of defense that can counteract the powerful push factors in Central America\u201d that impel the huge surge of illegal immigration at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson spoke with Margaret Brennan on CBS News\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation.\u201d Brennan pointed out that the Biden administration and the CDC were planning to lift Title 42 \u2014 the coronavirus public health directive that was implemented in March 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Trump administration and restricts asylum claims, being responsible for deporting roughly 1.7 million migrants \u2014 then commented, \u201cWhen we hear from the administration that they could see as many as 18,000 migrants per day crossing that border, it seems incredible. Senate Democrats have said the administration is not prepared. Do you think they are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After claiming that DHS officials had informed him that they were \u201cmaking preparations, that they are prepared, that there are resources, transportation in place for this level of of migration on our southern border,\u201d Johnson admitted, \u201cWithout a doubt, these are large numbers. DHS, I believe, has learned lessons from the past, in surges in the past, including when I was in office. But, still, numbers at these levels are difficult to handle on the southern border. Communities on the southern border, catholic charities, the volunteers, difficult to absorb these types of numbers under almost any scenario. It\u2019s challenging for the Border Patrol, for ICE to properly process and track these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brennan noted that both President Biden and Vice President Harris publicly called for migration to slow in 2021, then asked, \u201cSo why haven\u2019t we heard anything like that now? Is it because the administration took so much heat from progressive Democrats?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret, I can only tell you about my own experience dealing with this very, very difficult issue,\u201d Johnson replied. \u201cI have learned that you have to repeat a message dozens and dozens of times before people actually do begin to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer-term lesson, however, is that migration is a market sensitive phenomenon. It reacts sharply to news in the information marketplace about enhanced enforcement, decreased enforcement on our southern border,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can repeat these messages over and over again, and we should. But, as long as the underlying conditions exist, the poverty, violence in Central America exists, the numbers are going to always revert back to their longer-term trend lines. There is no level of defense that can counteract the powerful push factors in Central America. That\u2019s something that I know President Biden believes in. We discussed it extensively when he was vice president and I was secretary of Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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