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Jeh Johnson speaks out on separating immigrant families: ‘It’s just something I couldn’t do’

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As the Trump Administration grapples with a crisis of its own making Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security tells us about what happened when he faced separating children from their parents.

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0:00.0

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0:14.6

I am Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up.

0:24.0

As the Trump administration grapples with a crisis of its own making,

0:29.0

I sat down with a man who knows exactly what they're grappling with and took a different course of action.

0:35.2

Jay Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama.

0:39.5

What happened when he faced separating children from their parents.

0:43.2

It was just simply not something we could do.

0:46.6

You can hear him get into this and more,

0:48.5

including the NFL kneeling controversy, right now.

0:58.7

Secretary Johnson, thank you very much for being on the podcast. Jonathan, thanks for having me.

1:00.1

So you wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post where you talk about how you and your wife went to

1:07.0

Macallin, Texas. You went to this detention facility. This was back in 2014, I believe, when we were having the

1:15.8

crisis of the children from Central America coming over the border. Various

1:20.8

Trump administration officials have basically laid the blame of what's happening today

1:27.0

at the feet of the Obama administration, really at your feet.

1:31.0

They said, y'all did it, so we're just doing what you did can you

1:35.3

please walk us through the differences between what's happening now and

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