What’s the Trouble with Alejandro Mayorkas?
Mayorkas has an effective policy position that amounts to this: Immigration is unlimited.
By Dan Stein
March 21, 2021
Anyone following the four years of the Trump Administration’s efforts to regain control of the border could not help but notice that hundreds of lawsuits were filed by immigration advocates to delay, forestall, and challenge every move to improve border controls. While most of these lawsuits were unsuccessful, they helped run out the clock until a new administration could come in and undo what worked.
Biden has done that—taking direct aim at those Trump Administration policies and agreements that had the greatest amount of deterrent value.
Oddly enough, in contrast to the Trump experience, when the Biden Administration seeks to ignore and create new immigration law, courts are largely silent. Judicial pressure on the immigration system effectively pushes in only one direction—relaxation of controls and less enforcement.
The new Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, knows this. It did not take long for our worst fears about Mayorkas to be realized. In a few short weeks since his confirmation, he has ushered in a border crisis of unimaginable proportions. There is no end in sight.
Mayorkas thinks he has the right to make up new immigration laws by abusing the concept of discretion until the exception has swallowed the rule.
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