Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been among the Biden administration’s most visible and vocal sources of border-related spin as the U.S. has been inundated with undocumented migrants over the course of the past four years.
During a recent CBS News interview, he acknowledged that the White House could have taken executive action much earlier to stem the tide, but went on to blame Republicans for the inaction.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But the Biden administration, and I think you have said to me, one of the very first things the Biden administration did was ask Congress to act in the earliest days, and then fast forward, you had this bipartisan near miss on a border bill all that time passed, why wait until five months before the US election to put in place those asylum restrictions that did cut off the flow? That ended the crisis?
SECRETARY MAYORKAS: Margaret remember where we were when the President took office. We were in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prior administration had imposed title 42 which is a public health authority, and enabled us to expel individuals, to continue to expel individuals at the border, as the prior administration had done. There was tremendous pressure to maintain the workings of Title 42 which we did. Remember- and that was pressure to maintain Title 42 a bipartisan pressure that–
MARGARET BRENNAN: — Which was pinned on the CDC as a health measure. But sure, yes.
SECRETARY MAYORKAS: That held until May of 2023 and we ended the workings of Title 42 because this country had escaped the throes of COVID 19 more rapidly and more successfully than any country in the hemisphere and, quite frankly, the world. We then turned to Congress and we asked for supplemental funding that was desperately needed to make our administration of a broken immigration system work much better. We were denied. We went back to Congress a second time and requested supplemental funding. Denied, despite a desperate need for it. We then turned to the bipartisan negotiations, which proved successful, which were then killed. The result of it, a really terrific solution was killed by irresponsible politics. Looking back now in hindsight, in 20/20 if we had known that irresponsible politics would have killed what was clearly a meritorious effort and a meritorious result, perhaps we would have taken executive action more rapidly.
That telling admission was just the latest reason critics say Mayorkas, who was impeached earlier this year for his handling of the immigration issue, is completely unfit for the position:
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ~ “The border is closed. The border is secure” pic.twitter.com/Y0f354lOdr
— • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ ™ • (@4Mischief) September 26, 2023
Whenever an American is attacked or killed by an illegal alien, Alejandro Mayorkas is one of the main culprits.
Rather than deporting illegals, Mayorkas’ focus is getting transgender aliens the medical care “they need”
He belongs in a cell next to Fauci. pic.twitter.com/3NBryWMt7i
— JohnRocker (@itsJohnRocker) December 23, 2024
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jim Jordan says, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas should be tried for treason for what is happening on our southern border.
Do you support this?
YES OR NO pic.twitter.com/rLIGvInxDV— Save America 🇺🇲 (@usanews0) July 26, 2024
Mike Johnson destroys Mayorkas
"We've concluded you are doing this intentionally."#614clinton pic.twitter.com/LkFSJu1O08
— Clinton (@614clinton) November 1, 2023
Here’s how some immigration experts reacted to Mayorkas’ remarks, per Breitbart:
“This was not incompetence,” countered Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration reform.
‘This was a deliberate plan to remake the country through immigration … [and] they were trying to create a [political] situation where they thought they could force the Republicans to capitulate and basically codify open borders,” said Mehlman.
“They opened the borders because they wanted to flood the country,” responded Rosemary Jenks, the co-founder of the Immigration Accountability Project. But, she added, “I have no evidence that anyone at DHS, including Mayorkas, was [used the migration to] pressuring Republicans in the Senate to do anything until the end of 2023,” said Jenks, adding:
I think they saw an [Senate] opportunity at the end of 2023 and thought, “Oh, hey, you know, regardless of what we do in the elections, maybe we can tie the next administration’s hands with these dumb Republicans in the Senate.”
And here’s his objectionable take on hundreds of thousands of missing migrant minors:
🚨Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas: "We certainly have received reports of children being trafficked, even those as to whom we know where they are. That is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security."
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pic.twitter.com/uK9JGIsNg3— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 22, 2024
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