Homeland Security Secretary Jeh (jay) Johnson says Republican Donald Trump’s proposal for a ban on immigration from countries with terrorist histories is impractical.
While declining to name Trump, Johnson condemned “overly simplistic suggestions” for dealing with the violence.
Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Johnson defended President Barack Obama against Trump’s charge that Obama has been too passive on the issue.
Johnson said that “I know from working with him for seven years that the president’s No. 1 priority is the protection of Americans.”
He added that authorities throughout the government continually reassess whether their strategy to combat this violence needs to be changed.
Johnson told ABC that protecting U.S. from attack is increasingly complicated in an era of “self-radicalization.” He said “there’s no indication” the Orlando attack was “terrorist-directed.”
(AP)
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Mr jay johnson would rather stick his head in the mud, and not admit Trump is right!
It is simplistic and I suspect that if Mr. Trump ever sat down to work out the details it would come out looking like more serious scrutiny of Muslims entering the country, perhaps combined with an oath that they were on our side (and remember, most Muslims are against ISIS/al Queda, and most of the people fighting and daying in the war against ISIS are Muslims). Donald talks in sound bites, and his critics assume they are policy statements.