New DHS chief to make first border visit
January 17, 2014, 05:01 pm
By Rebecca Shabad
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is
visiting the United States
border in Texas and Arizona next week to inspect border security
operations.
Department spokesman Clark Stevens
confirmed on Twitter Friday Johnson will visit next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The visit will mark Johnson’s
first trip to the border since he was sworn into the Cabinet position Dec. 23.
Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) said
Johnson’s trip comes after he invited the secretary to visit his southeastern
district in Arizona, which covers portions of Tucson.
“The issues facing the people I
represent who live and work on the border can only be understood by talking to
them and seeing firsthand the concerns they have regarding border security,”
Barber said in a statement Friday. “I will continue my work with the secretary
and my Republican and Democratic colleagues in the House to secure the border
and make sure our agents have the resources and support they need to get the
job done.”
Barber is a member of the House
Homeland Security Committee.
Just a few days before Johnson was
sworn in, Barber invited him in a letter to tour the border to give him a
first-hand look at the area where “smuggling of illegal drugs and continues to
have one of the highest rates of apprehension for people entering the country
illegally.”
During the confirmation process,
Republican lawmakers accused Johnson of lacking experience on border security
issues.
President Obama nominated him in
October to succeed Janet Napolitano,
who now serves as president of the University of California.
Johnson previously served as
general counsel for the Defense Department during Obama’s first term.
Jeh Johnson
Jeh Charles
Johnson is the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, and was a governor at the Roosevelt Institute.
Note: Jonathan Soros is
a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute, and his father is George
Soros.
George
Soros is Jonathan Soros’s
father, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Donald
F. McHenry is a governor for the Roosevelt
Institute, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a regent at the University of California.
Janet A.
Napolitano is the president-nominee for the University of California,
and was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security for the Barack Obama administration.
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