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From Mediaite: President Donald Trump said he is open to looking into investigating and possibly arresting former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
At a Tuesday press conference in Florida after a tour of a migrant detention center being called “Alligator Alcatraz,” Trump held a press conference alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and current Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The president was asked about people calling for the arrest of Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border under former President Joe Biden.
“I ran into former DHS Secretary Mayorkas and I asked him a couple questions about his disastrous handling of the border. He didn’t like my questions, but the number one question that I heard from people responding to my video was, ‘Why hasn’t he been arrested yet?’” The Blaze’s Julio Rosas asked the president at Tuesday’s presser.
Trump first responding by noting the massive amount of last-minute pardons Biden doled out, and asked if Mayorkas was given a pardon as well.
Rosas responded, “I don’t believe so.”
“Well, I’d take a look at that one because what he did is it’s beyond incompetence. Something had to be done,” Trump replied. :Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people, and he was really doing the orders. And you could say he was very loyal to them because it must have been very hard for him to stand up and sit up and, you know, talk about what he allowed to happen to this country and be serious about it. So he was given orders. If he wasn’t given a pardon, I could see looking at that.”
Turning to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Trump said, “Why don’t you take a look at it, Kristi?”
WATCH the full exchange below:
President Trump on possibly arresting former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the border: “He was given orders. If he wasn’t given a pardon I could see looking at that.” pic.twitter.com/EEoyYvJRif
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Rosas later announced on X, “President Donald Trump tells me at Alligator Alcatraz that he will look into holding former DHS Secretary Mayorkas personally accountable for his deliberate and disastrous handling of the border.”
NEW: President Donald Trump tells me at Alligator Alcatraz that he will look into holding former DHS Secretary Mayorkas
personally accountable for his deliberate and disastrous handling of the border.— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) July 1, 2025
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