From Breitbart: Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that he and his deputies could have blocked more migrants at the southern border.
“We would have taken executive action more rapidly,” if he had known in 2020 [emphasis added] that the Republicans would reject his January 2024 border bill, Mayorkas told CBS News on December 22.
“This was not incompetence,” countered Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration reform.
‘This was a deliberate plan to remake the country through immigration … [and] they were trying to create a [political] situation where they thought they could force the Republicans to capitulate and basically codify open borders,” said Mehlman.
CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Mayorkas, “Why wait until five months before the U.S. election to put in place those asylum restrictions that did cut off the flow? That ended the crisis!”
Mayorkas touted the Covid-19 pandemic as one reason for the surge of illegal aliens into the U.S., repeated his claim that he had to deal with a “broken immigration system,” and blamed Congress for not taking action.
No mention was made of Joe Biden’s order on Day One to stop all construction of the border wall.
Instead he touted executive action Biden took this year, and claimed, “Looking back now in hindsight, in 2020, if we had known that irresponsible politics would have killed what was clearly a meritorious effort and a meritorious result, perhaps we would have taken executive action more rapidly.”
When asked about child trafficking, Mayorkas defiantly claimed, “We certainly have received reports of children being trafficked, even those as to whom we know where they are. That is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.”
“We turn children over within 72 hours, as the law requires, to the Department of Health and Human Services, then HHS places those children,” he said dismissively.
Watch:
MAYORKAS: “We certainly have received reports of children being trafficked, even those as to whom we know where they are. That is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.”
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