Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed on Tuesday’s Fox News Channel” Your World” that the Biden administration” took action” to help secure the border” a long time ago” and has “been enforcing the law from day one,” but that sometimes policies take time to have an impact.
While discussing the Senate immigration costs, host Neil Cavuto asked,” Nice, but the President’s doing a lot of things that are in this determine now, and a lot of people criticize him for doing that, what took you so much? Does n’t it seem strange to you that President Biden could have done all along but did n’t include the measure to shut down the border once there are 4, 000 crossings a day, as well as some of these other things to speed up the process of applying for asylum and try to get it done in 180 days rather than waiting for years?
Mayorkas responded,” Neil, we took motion a long time ago. And relocation is a very powerful trend, and the effects take time to manifest themselves. We built features in international countries, in Guatemala, in Costa Rica, in Mexico as effectively. And sometimes, they do n’t develop overnight, they take time to mature, and we’ll continue to take actions within the confines of our authorities. Congress must take action.
Cavuto then asked,” But I guess it struck a lot of people as strange — no contempt, Secretary, Chad Wolf, your father, was among those saying, we’re almost three and a half decades into a turmoil, and only now are they starting to take these professional behavior, these are activities that we had been pleading with the administration to get for two and a half to three years. What do you say to that”?
Mayorkas answered,” That’s not accurate. That’s what I say. The asylum officer rule was put into practice through regulation. We put the Circumvention of Legal Pathways rule into practice through regulation. We have built additional facilities, deployed enforcement and removal operations officers. More than any other full fiscal year since 2011, we have removed or returned more than 720, 000 people who do not meet the law’s requirements. Despite the political rhetoric that suggests otherwise, we’ve been enforcing the law since day one.
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