Three DHS secretaries disagree with Trump: Mexico border not a top security threat

Published September 9, 2019 9:47pm ET



The U.S.-Mexico border, where President Trump is building a wall and to which he has dispatched troops, is not among the nation’s top homeland security concerns, a bipartisan group of former secretaries of homeland security said Monday.

Former DHS Secretaries Janet Napolitano and Jeh Johnson, who worked for Barack Obama, and Michael Chertoff, homeland secretary under George W. Bush, told senators Monday they worry about cybersecurity, global warming, domestic terrorism, and mass shootings more than anything else.

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