Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: We don’t need ‘immigration czar’

Published April 1, 2019 10:47pm ET



Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson dismissed President Trump’s reported proposal to hire an “immigration czar” to coordinate immigration policy between federal agencies.

“We actually already have an ‘immigration czar.’ It’s called the secretary of homeland security,” Johnson, who served during the Obama administration, quipped in an interview Monday with MSNBC.

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