Former Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday said that the Biden administration needed to treat the ongoing migrant crisis as an "all hands on deck" situation, warning that a failure to do so could strengthen former President Donald Trump's electoral chances as he looks to retake the White House in 2024.
During a conversation on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Johnson praised the administration's decision to afford temporary protected status to Venezuelans who had already entered the United States.
But he also said that the immigration surge was creating a whole host of issues for the federal government.
"It was a good thing that the Department of Homeland Security, my old department, decided to grant TPS to about 9,500 Venezuelans ... that will expedite their ability to get jobs sooner and faster. But that's really just a drop in the bucket," he said. "This problem has no end in sight. And the two most alarming statistics I heard over the weekend, 8,900 apprehensions on our southern border in one day, last week, and that on the Mexican border with Central America, South Americans are now exceeding Central Americans in terms of the migration north."
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