Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Acknowledges ‘Crisis’ at the Southern Border

A Central American migrant is taken in custody by Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border fence from Tijuana to San Diego as seen from Playas de Tijuana, in Baja California state, Mexico, on March 21, 2019. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

Jeh Johnson, the former homeland security secretary during the Obama administration, said on several recent television appearances that there is a “crisis” at the Southern border, adding that the number of apprehensions has surpassed anything he had seen during his time as the department’s head.

“By anyone’s definition, by any measure, right now we have a crisis at our southern border,” Johnson said during an interview on Fox’s Cavuto LIVE on March 30.