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Amid Record Illegal Immigration, Mayorkas Insists Border Is ‘Secure.’ What Would Unsecured Look Like?

Posted on Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas leading a press conference.

Millions of people have illegally crossed the southern border into the United States in the past few years, but the Biden administration says everything is fine, with “nothing to see here.”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas even said last week that the southern border is “secure.”

With scant evidence or justification, he’s been repeating that “secure” line since assuming his post in February 2021.

“Look, the border is secure,” he said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on July 19. “We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.”

That’s quite a remarkable statement from the homeland security secretary. Almost none of it is true, except for the “historic” part.

Of course, Mayorkas followed up his assurance that all is well with a predictable call for “comprehensive immigration reform” that Democrats have been selling for generations.

“I have said to a number of legislators who expressed to me that we need to address the challenge at the border before they pass legislation, and I take issue with the math of holding the solution hostage until the problem is resolved,” Mayorkas said.

“There is work to be done,” he said, before adding that “safe and secure are two different words.”

Since President Joe Biden took office just over 18 months ago, there has been a historic surge of illegal immigration across the southern border. It’s been decades since we’ve seen anything like it.

In fiscal 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 1.7 million border encounters. It was the highest number ever recorded, but fiscal year 2022’s numbers are already higher. More than 2 million people have been encountered at the border through June. And the fiscal year doesn’t end until Sept. 30.

On top of those detained are the hundreds of thousands of “got-aways” who have evaded Border Patrol, according to a Fox News report. Senior Department of Homeland Security sources reportedly told Fox News that there have been nearly a million of these got-aways since the beginning of fiscal year 2021.

“There have been approximately 900,000 known got-aways since the beginning of [fiscal year 2021], per the sources, which is equivalent to a population bigger than the city of San Francisco sneaking across the border without apprehension,” Fox News reported on Monday.

Not only are there millions of people coming across the border and breaking U.S. law in the process, but many of those crossing are drug smugglers, human traffickers, and even potential terrorists.

Does that sound like the border is secure? Hardly. In fact, some Border Patrol agents took issue with Mayorkas’ assessment that all is well at the border.

“Hundreds of thousands crossing every month is not the definition of ‘secure,’” a Border Patrol agent told Fox News Digital. “They are liars, and anyone who believes them are fools.”

Another agent, according to the Fox report, said that the administration is using “bogus” claims to help border-crossers dodge U.S. immigration laws.

“They’re using issues like poverty, crime, and climate change as reasons for [seeking] asylum, but those do not meet the legal standard of the law,” the agents said.

Another agent quoted in the report said that Biden and members of his administration haven’t upheld their oath of office.

“Mayorkas, [Border Patrol Chief Raul] Ortiz, and Biden are failures that do not have the support of agents and many command staff. They all have violated their oath of office to defend the laws and Constitution, and should be removed,” the source said, according to Fox News.

It’s hard to blame Border Patrol agents for being outspoken. The now badly understaffed agency—thanks in large part to Biden’s policies—is now dealing with a generational crisis. It doesn’t help that the administration has maligned, and seeks to punish, Border Patrol agents for doing their job and simply trying to contain the administration’s self-caused mess.

It gets worse.

Though the Border Patrol is detaining an incredible number of would-be illegal immigrants at the border, the administration isn’t prosecuting most of them.

A recent report by The Washington Free Beacon uncovered that the Biden administration “dramatically reduced migrant prosecutions by nearly 80 percent in the 2021 fiscal year.”

That was a huge shift from the final year of the Donald Trump administration, as the Free Beacon noted:

Just 2,896 migrants apprehended on the southwest border were transferred into U.S. Marshals Service custody in the 2021 fiscal year, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. In the 2020 fiscal year, 13,213 migrants were transferred to federal authorities for prosecution.

The Free Beacon explained that this drop-off wasn’t just because of the Title 42 health policy that led to expedited deportations during a pandemic.

“Trump instituted Title 42 in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and still prosecuted far more migrants than in Biden’s first year of his presidency,” The Washington Free Beacon reported. “Moreover, illegal border crossings in 2020 were much lower than in 2021, which saw the most migrant apprehensions in U.S. history.”

Of course, the Biden administration has been trying to discontinue Title 42, a policy change that would only make things worse. A federal judge blocked the policy change, but it appears the administration is still doing its best to make a farce of border enforcement in this country.

On border enforcement, the administration is essentially a rogue prosecutor. Law enforcement brings people in, the administration lets them go, and more people arrive. When you fail to prosecute crime, you get more crime and more criminals. Likewise, when you fail to maintain the law at the border, you get more people willing to break the law and cross the border.

So, the historic numbers we are now seeing are no mystery. The only question now is whether the administration is just incompetent or doing this on purpose—or is it both?

One way or another, it’s hard to see the Biden administration’s approach to border security as anything other than a national disaster. If this really is what the administration sees as borders that are “secure,” one shudders at the thought of what an “unsecure” border—by its definition—would look like.

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Mandy
Mandy
1 year ago

So the Biden admin just out-and-out lies to the American people and the media says zilch about it.

Tom P
Tom P
1 year ago

I’m not sure why these incompetent jerks are hell bent on destroying our country, but they are. This idiot is lying to our faces about the border being secure. The bumblef#*<k in the whitehouse wants us to believe there is no recession when everyone on the planet knows there is. Pretty sad that they would ruin the country just so a few elites can have it all and the rest suffer. I don’t think it’s going to turn out the way they think though!

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
1 year ago

Being a flyover senior citizen, I cannot afford a country club membership, but America the country is my country club. Citizenship has perks, but those perks or not for those who came illegally and providing them perks threatens mine! Where was Mayorkas on my ballot? No unelected bureaucrat has the right to tell me the border is secure when any idiot can see it is not!

Pj
Pj
1 year ago

If the border is secure like you say then why are the Governors from NYC and DC telling TX to stop sending the migrants?!Why do you think the American people are stupid?

James J
James J
1 year ago

Clean The Peoples House.. Start with TREASON !!! We all know it is True..

People vs Biden and his Communist Administration along with a few dozen Governers.

Then Institute TERM LIMITS !!!

Becky
Becky
1 year ago

Every single thing being done to break America was planned in the late 50s and very early 60s by the Communist Party in America.
America has to be dead to institute global Communism through the UN.

Art
Art
1 year ago

NEW TITLE FOR THIS INCOMPETENT BAGAPOO. ALEJANDRO MYORKAS,BSAI. AI AS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. HE IS CONTROLLED BY HIS HANDLERS AND ELECTRONICALLY PROGRAMED TO REPEAT THE SAME LINE IN A FEED BACK LOOP. IT MUST ENJOY ITS JOB OF RUINING THIS COUNTRY. ITS EXTREME EFFORT AND CONSISTENCY IS ASTOUNDING.

edward
edward
1 year ago

standard marxist strategy; “lie until it becomes the truth”, something to that effect was said by joseph gobbles(and he got it from the woodrow wilson administration!)

Cliff
Cliff
1 year ago

I’m a truck driver and I regularly pass through areas where there are Border Patrol check stations. For most of 2022 they have been closed. I can only assume that it’s because of staffing issues. But it does pose the question, is the present administration doing everything within it’s power to protect and secure our borders?

Maurice Brandt
Maurice Brandt
1 year ago

He is an idiot, just like Biden.

anna hubert
anna hubert
1 year ago

Illegal immigration is more than crossing the border those people have to eat be housed and clothed children go to school and they also will need doctors dentists and hospital how that will be provided who will provide it and who will pay for it and with what ,.seems to not bother politicians at all,they still are in the saddle

Bill R
Bill R
1 year ago

He’s directing that to the vast number “vote Democrat, no matter what’s” and political illiterates who depend upon sound bites to make up their “minds” on any issue.

Moses
Moses
1 year ago

They are letting illegal aliens across the border, and delivering them nationwide so when they cheat on the vote they can claim it’s all the illegals voting. They won’t vote, but they are here, how many, who knows. The democrats hide behind the the Left Stream Media that delivers their propaganda. If they keep the house and senate in the mid term election our country will be lost. The military is controlled by the democrats, as is the entire federal government. That surely is no news to anyone, I fear we republicans don’t lie, cheat, and steal enough to save our country.

Woodmangler57
Woodmangler57
1 year ago

Joseph Göbbels would be so proud of his minions in this administration. Propaganda has taken hold in this country. Don’t believe it, turn on nbc, cbs, abc, msnbc, cnn, and any number of other news fabricating agencies.

Veritas
Veritas
1 year ago

Mayorkas shameless invokes The Goebbels Rule:
 “Repeat the lie often enough and loud enough until everyone believes it.”

Jeanette
Jeanette
1 year ago

If the border is secure..how are the illegals getting into our country? They’re certainly not walking on water from almost every world country! DHS Head is a liar!

Charlie Wood
Charlie Wood
1 year ago

Mayorkas and SO many Like him are trying are trying their Damnedest to make this Country another
Communist Country with their LIES and and Propaganda.

Ask anyone who lives on our BORDERS if they are Secure. We NEED the Military to Start Defending our Borders. Why the United States hasn’t taken this step is INSANE. That IS the JOB of Our Military !

Try to cross ANY other Country’s Borders and you will be Detained if not Shot by — Their Military !

Donald A Colongeli
Donald A Colongeli
1 year ago

IT IS SECURE THE WAY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS SET IT UP. ITS THIER IDIOTIC THINKING THE WAY THEY DO. ITS THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE NOT MADE A STAND TO STOP THEM!

Elaine
Elaine
1 year ago

Of course he says the border is “secure”. If he told the truth, either he would lose his job or be assigned to make it secure. I think he should be assigned to make it secure, because our VP is not doing her job! Maybe he could even get promoted.

Steve
Steve
1 year ago

He is simply emphasising the Biden – Harris message!

Ken
Ken
1 year ago

Mayoress remains completely delusional. Just another dumba$$ Democrat.

patriot
patriot
1 year ago

Mayorkas is a democrap and you can tell when they are lying, their lip are moving. They can look right at the TV camera and tell outlandish lies and it doesn’t bother them for a second. They’re a different and immoral breed.

Patriot Will
Patriot Will
1 year ago

Mayorkas is totally unfit for his position. He is either a pathological liar, or he is living in an alternative mind set, because he is so stubborn that he believes his own lies. Anyone who is as devoid of honesty and empathy as Mayorkas should be spending serious time in prison. He is responsible for tens of thousands of tragic deaths and huge numbers of innocent lives being ruined.

Philip Hammersley
Philip Hammersley
1 year ago

One thing that is true about ALL of Biden’s cronies : they are all LIARS!
“The border is secure.” “Men can be pregnant and have abortions.” “We are not in a recession.”
“I know nothing about Hunter’s business deals.” “SCOTUS outlawed all abortions.” Take your pick; there are plenty more!

Dennis Belotti
Dennis Belotti
1 year ago

This clown is nothing but an illegal and a Socialist.
These Communist will NEVER stop without a mass revolt by Americans.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
1 year ago

Wrong since day 1

Pat
Pat
1 year ago

Mayorkas, like the rest of his kind, lies like a true TRAITOR!

Boz
Boz
1 year ago

Traitors must be dragged out and hanged. America is under attack from within.

James Thompson
James Thompson
1 year ago

Ask the mayor of DC and NY about that!

George
George
1 year ago

I believe that if the illegal immigrants knew that America is on the verge with war with China, ongoing tension with Russia that threatens to erupt into a major war at any time, and conflict with Iran and its nuclear weapon in the near future, they would stay in their native countries and fight there to make a better life for themselves. Perhaps they have not heard of our inflation, crime in the streets, and food shortages either. Maybe that is how Biden and Mayorkas plan to control immigration.

Rik
Rik
1 year ago

The “whole” Lyin Biden Regime NEEDS to know that once they have been disposed from office that they each and everyone of them will be prosecuted for TREASON!

Maggie
Maggie
1 year ago

At some point, this administration will no longer be in power. NOW would be the time – for those who know how and are able – to begin formulating lawsuits bringing evildoers to justice. As soon as feasable, those suits should be filed, so that NONE of these liars can ever hold a public office again. May they all pay a heavy price for their evil; but more importantly may they come to Christ.

Max
Max
1 year ago

Who, in this country, is “DELUSIONAL” about what has been happening at the borders (South and North) since a “DEMENTED” party has assumed control (but has taken “NO RESPONSIBILITY”)? One guess only, please.

johnh
johnh
1 year ago

How can Mayorkas sit there & tell Americans that the border is secure. Is he saying that all of the news covering the Border are FAKE News (using Trump’s favorite quip). Then are both Govs. of Arizona & Texas telling us fake news ???

Laura Germani
Laura Germani
1 year ago

I believe the border crisis was no mistake. Let everyone in and the radical left has all the voters they need.

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 year ago

If the Border is secured then why does DICTATOR Beijing biden keep letting in ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST and giving them cell phones, tablets, I.D. Cards to ILLEGALLY VOTE, Free plane rides to all over USA that ARE CARRYING DISEASES and VIRUSES with INSECTS and ANIMALS that DON’T BELONG while getting government benefits ILLEGALLY at TAX PAYER EXPENSE and SOVEREIGNTY?
Why is ALL our FOOD being sent to ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST including BABY FOOD?
Why are OUR grocery stores empty sending OUR FOOD to ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST?
Why is the Ecological Environment DESTROYED from ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST keep coming across ILLEGALLY?
Why hasn’t the LOSER environmental groups been whining about it? They can whine about CLEAN OIL DRILLING but don’t whine about ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST
DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY?
How many TERRORIST are NOW in the USA thanks to DICTATOR Beijing biden?
OVER 50 MILLION and COUNTING and still coming in.
This is what DICTATOR Beijing biden calls secured borders.
Only a FOOL would believe the FOOL telling the LIE that our Borders are secured when the FACTS speak volumes.

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