Obama's DHS secretary: Migrant cages weren't invented when Trump became president
by Julio Rosas
| July 01, 2019 04:28 PM
Former President Barack Obama's secretary of homeland security said the practice of putting migrants in cages after being detained by authorities did not start when Donald Trump became president.
“Chain link barriers, partitions, fences, cages, whatever you want to call them, were not invented on January 20, 2017, okay?" Jeh Johnson said at the Aspen Ideas Festival last Friday.
"But during that 72-hour period, when you have something that is a multiple — like four times — of what you’re accustomed to in the existing infrastructure, you’ve got to find places quickly to put kids. You can't just dump 7-year-old kids on the streets of McAllen or El Paso," he continued. "And so these facilities were erected … they put those chain link partitions up so you could segregate young women from young men, kids from adults, until they were either released or transferred to HHS."
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