For the Second Time in a Year, DHS Secretary Mayorkas Admits His Prior Border Strategy to Be an Abject Failure
If this week's announcement, the administration's third try at a border plan, also fails, then what?
By George Fishman on June 7, 2024
Just about a year ago, I wrote about Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s warning that adhering to his own earlier, and highly self-touted, “Mayorkas Plan” (“DHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness”) would lead to disaster. In May 2023 Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote that 2022’s “Mayorkas Plan” would:
“Unduly impede DHS’s ability to fulfill its critical and varied missions”;
“Incentivize an increasing number of migrants to [come illegally to] the United States and further increase the likelihood of sustained high encounter rates”;
“Encourage migrants to make a dangerous journey to the SWB [southwest border]”;
Result in “those who have a valid claim to asylum ... hav[ing] to [maybe] wait years for their claims to be granted, while individuals who will ultimately be found ineligible for protection may [be able to] spend years [here] before being ordered removed”;
https://cis.org/Fishman/Second-Time-Year-DHS-Secretary-Mayorkas-Admits-His-Prior-Border-Strategy-Be-Abject-Failure
