Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted “in hindsight” that executive action could have been taken to confront the “irresponsible policies” that led to the killing. Boundary negotiations between the two parties.
Margaret Brennan, host of CBS' “Face the Nation,” pressed Mayorkas on Sunday on why President Biden waited until just five months before the election to finally announce. Issuing executive orders To stop the flow at the border.
Mayorkas insisted that the administration pressured Congress to take action on the border, and continued to blame politics for preventing border funding from being passed.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the administration's actions at the border on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. (CBS News screenshot)
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“Remember where we were when the president took office,” Mayorkas said. “We were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous administration had imposed Title 42, which is the public health authority, and enabled us to expel individuals, and to continue expelling individuals at the border as the previous administration had done. There was tremendous pressure to keep Title 42 working, which we even did.” May 2023.”
He continued: “We then turned to Congress and asked for additional funding that we desperately needed to make our management of the broken immigration system work better. Our request was denied. We went back to Congress again and asked for additional funding. It was then denied, and then we resorted to negotiations between Bipartisanship, which proved successful, which was then killed, and the result was a really great solution because of irresponsible politics.
A bipartisan border bill failed to advance in the Senate earlier this year. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)
The “negotiations between the two parties” referred to A Senate border bill Negotiated by Republican Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona. Although the White House largely blamed Republicans for blocking the bill's passage, it failed to move the bill forward. Senate by a vote of 43-50 with bipartisan opposition.
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“Looking back now, in 2020, if we had known that irresponsible policies would have killed what was clearly a meritorious effort and meritorious result, we probably would have taken executive action more quickly,” Mayorkas said.
Mayorkas testified, saying the border was secure despite the record crossings. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
Until April 2023, Mayorkas insisted the border was “secure.” Despite record numbers of border crossings during the Biden administration. This was a claim he repeated despite being subjected to scorn and ridicule from Republicans.
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