DHS chief says deportation ‘not pleasant,’ claims ‘we do not have open borders’

Published August 3, 2016 4:37pm ET



The nation’s top immigration officer on Wednesday pushed back at claims the administration has an open-border policy, adding that it upsets him to deport illegal immigrants.

Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, said that the U.S. is filling over a dozen jets a week with illegals and flying them back to Central America.

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