White House considered firing Mayorkas, attempted to squash calling border migration surge a ‘crisis’
February 19, 2024 | Frieda Powers
A new report claims that President Joe Biden’s administration tried to alter the messaging on the border by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, even looking at firing the official.
Within a sprawling piece on “The Trials of Alejandro Mayorkas,” The New Yorker reported how the secretary’s use of the word “crisis: to describe the immigration emergency unfolding on the southern U.S. border was creating a problem for the White House and the image Biden was trying to project.
As Biden entered the White House in 2021, his first order of business was seemingly dismantling everything that his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, had put in place – especially concerning restrictions on illegal immigration. Mayorkas, who was just impeached by the Republican-controlled House, was given the directive by the administration to see the agenda through.
“The White House had instructed Mayorkas to avoid using the word ‘crisis’ in his public appearances, but it was obvious to most observers that there was one,” the piece, by Jonathan Blitzer, detailed, adding “More than five hundred unaccompanied children were arriving each day; thousands of them were stuck in borderland holding facilities.”
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