Cotton: ‘Secretary Mayorkas Is Plainly in Over His Head’Jeff Poor 22 Mar 2021
On Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,†Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) hammered the Biden administration, specifically Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for the handling of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cotton said that given FEMA was deployed to the region, it was a signal the situation was “at least†an emergency.
“Yes, they also sent FEMA. In case anyone has forgotten, the ‘E’ in FEMA stands for ‘Emergency,'†he said. “So I guess you could at least call it an emergency. But yes, it’s a total disaster. You heard Griff’s report that now they may be releasing people into the country without so much as a court date.â€
“And I know that Joe Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have been claiming that oh, Donald Trump dismantled our immigration system,†Cotton continued. “No, it’s Joe Biden that dismantled the effective policies that had closed our border, allowing migrants to stay in Mexico while they process asylum claims or forcing them to make asylum claims — not in the United States, their country of choice, but the first country they passed through when they left their own country. Places like Guatemala.â€
“Now, they claim that some of these countries — oh, they’re too violent,†he added. “We can’t possibly expect them to stay there — seek asylum there. Baltimore has a higher murder rate than most of these countries in the Central American Northern Triangle. So why should we expect that migrants have a right to come to our country to escape the so-called high violence there when Baltimore and other cities in America have higher murder rates than some of these countries in Central America?â€
The Arkansas Republican described Mayorkas as “in over his head†and criticized Mayorkas for barring the press.
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