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Jeh Johnson: Obama Administration Expanded Migrant Family Detention
breitbart ^ | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 06/21/2018 3:28:06 PM PDT by davikkm

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson reminded MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell Thursday of the Obama administration’s decision to expand the number of immigrant family detentions.

A partial transcript follows:

JEH JOHNSON: 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 condition of the so-called push factors in central America. So that is what President Trump and his administration have seen now over the last year. The numbers are 40 or 50,000 per month and they are obviously very frustrated with that. So in 2014 — to deal with the spike than with the families — we did a number of things; including by the way, working with the government of Mexico and obtaining their cooperation on securing their southern border, uh, but we also expanded family detention, which was, I freely admit, controversial.

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1 posted on 06/21/2018 3:28:06 PM PDT by davikkm
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For the most part, the liberal news networks overlooked the immigration problems during Obozo’s 8 years, because he could do no wrong.


2 posted on 06/21/2018 3:28:22 PM PDT by davikkm
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CNN is claiming right now that the “migrant kids are being beaten, abused”


3 posted on 06/21/2018 3:32:15 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (It's morning in America)
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which is absurd on the face of it because can you imagine the lawsuits?!


4 posted on 06/21/2018 3:36:25 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (It's morning in America)
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5 posted on 06/21/2018 3:44:35 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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OBAMA DHS SECY JEH JOHNSON: Illegal migration reacts sharply to perceived changes in US enforcement policy but it
reverts back to factors in central America. In 2014, we expanded family detention, which was, I freely admit, controversial.

Femi/Nazis musta went ballistic when they learned the Obama admin separated kids
by (gasp) gender at a US Customs center in Nogales, Arizona, June 18, 2014.

A number of prominent liberals — even an ex-Obama admin — waved photos of caged children in Nogales in outrage.

The raging liberals wrongfully concluded the cages were Trump's treatment of alien children. But the photo was vintage Obama-era.

To save Obama's Halfrican *** liberals then concocted the fiction that Trump forcibly separated kids from parents.

6 posted on 06/21/2018 3:44:45 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: davikkm
For the most part, the liberal news networks overlooked the immigration problems during Obozo’s 8 years, because he could do no wrong.

No, because they were in on the plan. Create an amnesty plan for kids. Then flood the border with kids. But don't release them yet, wait until after Hillary is elected because can't let it become an election issue. But once she's ensconced, let 'em out and let chain migration bring all their relatives. Never lose another election.

But then Hillary lost, oh well.

7 posted on 06/21/2018 3:51:28 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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Johnson may have been the worst of BHO’s cabinet appointees.


8 posted on 06/21/2018 4:18:32 PM PDT by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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Why anyone would want to be called by a name that sounds like someone dry heaving is beyond comprehension.


9 posted on 06/21/2018 4:28:07 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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First they said Donaldus was lying about the law, and no such law existed. Then they said he was violating the law that they said never existed. Reminds me of a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3etuIw-aM


10 posted on 06/21/2018 4:51:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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Why anyone would want to be called by a name that sounds like someone dry heaving is beyond comprehension.

"Jeh" is in the same linguistic group as "Huh", "Duh", "Uh", and "Nuh"--the group of words most often used by urban teens as answers to questions. Part of this linguistic group includes the silent shoulder shrug, which is not pronounced.

11 posted on 06/21/2018 5:20:47 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Obamy built a lot of new holding facilities and now we have another new grant to build more. Smells like all of South and Central America are headed this way.


12 posted on 06/21/2018 5:26:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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This should be a trump ad on tv and cable:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/20/obama-in-2014-dont-send-children-to-border-with-smugglers-they-may-not-make-it/


13 posted on 06/21/2018 5:28:33 PM PDT by poinq
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They did worse that overlook what he did, they made him out to be a hero during the unaccompanied children chaos. When his policy put children in chain link enclosures with space blankets and he separated families the media spun it as him saving the children; every day a new heroic O story from the border. I am surprised they didn’t give him a super hero cape.


14 posted on 06/21/2018 5:32:59 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: BlackAdderess

The real story is in this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3665062/posts


15 posted on 06/21/2018 5:34:39 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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Unreal that Jeh spoke truth. There’s hope out there!


16 posted on 06/21/2018 5:39:01 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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Bookmark


17 posted on 06/21/2018 5:41:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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MSNBC is Comcast. Don’t subscribe to Comcast only to have it piss in your shoes.


18 posted on 06/21/2018 5:42:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BlackAdderess

They were, UNDER OBAMA


19 posted on 06/21/2018 6:00:25 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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#10. Perhaps his name was a tribute to the Beatles and the last line of the song “She Loves You - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” but they couldn’t pronounce Yeah properly.


20 posted on 06/21/2018 9:28:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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