Top senator: Mexico controls the border, ‘we’re the chumps’

Published April 29, 2019 11:39am ET



Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the committee that oversees homeland security, has just returned from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border where he didn’t like what he saw.

A human crisis? Not really, said the Republican Wisconsin senator. “There is no humanitarian crisis,” he said.

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