Jeh Johnson, Barack Obama's former homeland security head, speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" says "I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 [apprehensions at the southern border] a day looks like..."
He goes on to note:
“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.”
With even Jeh Johnson saying that what we're seeing down at the southern border -- where a seeming sea of people from various Central American countries are demanding entrance into the United States -- is a genuine crisis, it seems clear that protestations to the contrary by various folks on the left side of the aisle are going to ring hollow and/or fall flat.
Of course, Johnson won't go all the way, to the full Monty reveal, because he disagrees with the current Preezy of the United Steezy's contention that a wall would solve the problem (newsflash: I don't think it would completely solve the problem, either... but it's a start). Still, he's shown he's willing to break out of all those left-wing talking points that base their arguments on Emma Lazarus and "The New Colossus," for the most part. So good on him.
Johnson's long-term solution (more investment in Central American economies) may actually have some promise. But that's for the long-term, and it does nothing to help the Border Patrol address the issue of 4,000 or more people arriving at the southern border every day.
If let in, they'd add nearly 1.5 million folks to the country's rolls in a single year. I'm not seeing how legions of low-skilled, poor-English-speaking people who may or may not want to come to the United States for genuine and sincere reasons, other than to get a low-paying job (depriving many Americans of the opportunity to get those jobs, as well) and almost immediately begin repatriating U.S. dollars back to their own countries. Where's the desire to assimilate or participate in any of the other cultural anchors that used to turn immigrants into Americans, and if not them then their children born here? Not seeing that, either.
Okay. Rant over. Time to go lay by my dish. Heh-heh.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
He goes on to note:
“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.”
With even Jeh Johnson saying that what we're seeing down at the southern border -- where a seeming sea of people from various Central American countries are demanding entrance into the United States -- is a genuine crisis, it seems clear that protestations to the contrary by various folks on the left side of the aisle are going to ring hollow and/or fall flat.
Of course, Johnson won't go all the way, to the full Monty reveal, because he disagrees with the current Preezy of the United Steezy's contention that a wall would solve the problem (newsflash: I don't think it would completely solve the problem, either... but it's a start). Still, he's shown he's willing to break out of all those left-wing talking points that base their arguments on Emma Lazarus and "The New Colossus," for the most part. So good on him.
Johnson's long-term solution (more investment in Central American economies) may actually have some promise. But that's for the long-term, and it does nothing to help the Border Patrol address the issue of 4,000 or more people arriving at the southern border every day.
If let in, they'd add nearly 1.5 million folks to the country's rolls in a single year. I'm not seeing how legions of low-skilled, poor-English-speaking people who may or may not want to come to the United States for genuine and sincere reasons, other than to get a low-paying job (depriving many Americans of the opportunity to get those jobs, as well) and almost immediately begin repatriating U.S. dollars back to their own countries. Where's the desire to assimilate or participate in any of the other cultural anchors that used to turn immigrants into Americans, and if not them then their children born here? Not seeing that, either.
Okay. Rant over. Time to go lay by my dish. Heh-heh.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
