Mayorkas Says Biden ‘Quickly’ Cracked Down On Border Crisis — Several Years And Millions Of Migrants Later
Jason Hopkins
Immigration Reporter
January 15, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that his administration “quickly” took executive action to stem illegal immigration, despite that order only coming after years into the nationwide border crisis.
Speaking to “PBS News Hour” in one of his latest exit interviews with the media, the outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief vigorously defended his record on border security — including that of his boss, President Joe Biden. While blaming congressional inaction and the prospect of litigation for his admin’s slow progress, Mayorkas contended that Biden acted swiftly on locking up the southern border, failing to mention that there were nearly ten million border encounters by that point in his administration. (RELATED: Illegal Immigrant Arrested Near LA Fire With Blowtorch Is A Convicted Felon With History Of Violence)
“We sought funding for more Border Patrol agents, more ICE officers, more asylum officers, more immigration judges,” he said to PBS about his request to Congress. “We were denied.”
“We were again denied, and we moved into the bipartisan Senate negotiations that actually produced a transformative piece of legislation, the first in almost 30 years, only to see it politically torpedoed,” he continued. “And in light of that, the president quickly took executive action, which is now being litigated in the courts.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/mayorkas-says-biden-quickly-acted-on-border/
