Jeh Johnson: “That's not how a deportation works. It is not a criminal prosecution; deportation proceedings do not work that way.”

I'm a former law enforcement officer. I have spent much of my career as a law enforcement officer. I will enforce the law. I will do what it takes to secure our border.

Frankly, I think we need to scrap it and start all over again.

The numbers, now, are something like, last time I looked, 12,000 a month. The prior administration sometimes saw that in a day.

He is moving the goalpost. He and his supporters would rather have this issue as a campaign issue than to actually take the opportunity that Lankford and Murphy have presented them to solve the problem.