Posted on 05/13/2026 5:59:18 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lamented the delay in immigration enforcement actions until the final year of President Biden’s term — despite having testified to Congress several times while in office that the US border was “secure.”
In an appearance Tuesday at Politico’s Security Summit, Mayorkas discussed aspects of the “broken” immigration system in America, acknowledging that a “low bar” for those expressing “credible fear of persecution” allowed too many migrants into the country during the Biden administration.
More than 8 million entered by the start of the 46th president’s final year in office — before Biden moved to shut down the border and crack down on illegal crossings via an executive order, first reported by The Post.
Democrats had been urging tighter border security months before, with at least one referring to Biden’s delay as “political malpractice.”
Mayorkas declined to “speculate” on the reasons for the too-little-too-late decision, which fueled President Trump’s return to the White House with a border security pledge.
“I am not in a position to speculate,” he told Politico’s Alex Burns at the Tuesday event when asked whether the delayed order enabled Trump’s 2024 victory, “but I will tell you that I would be far more better rested and less punched.”
The former DHS chief testified several times to Congress that illegal crossings were not an issue under Biden and the border was “secure,” leading to his impeachment in February 2024.
“With the authorities and the funding that we have, it is as secure as it can be,” Mayorkas also told a House committee just weeks after the impeachment.
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Mayorkas should be prosecuted for lying to voters and locked up. His lies should make him an accessory to all the murders and assaults performed by illegals.
You can say that again....and you did :)
-PJ
Funny how Trump came in and literally locked the entire border down with no extra funding.
You have to be a pretty big fool to believe that!
He should be in prison
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