DHS Sec Mayorkas Incorrectly Claims Border “Not Open” Ahead of Biden Go To

AUSTIN, Texas– Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas firmly insisted ahead of President Joe Biden’s inaugural check out to El Paso next week that the U.S.-Mexico border was “not open” for prohibited immigration.

Mayorkas informed press reporters Thursday afternoon about considerable forthcoming changes to immigration policies in the coming days and preserved that prohibited migration was not allowed, in spite of numerous million prohibited crossing efforts given that Biden took workplace 2 years earlier.

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“Let me be clear, Title 42 or not, the border is not open,” Mayorkas stated throughout journalism conference in Washington. “Once the Title 42 public health order is no longer in place, DHS will use its long-standing Title 8 immigration enforcement authorities to process all individuals encountered at the border.”

Biden will head to the West Texas city Sunday ahead of his journey to Mexico later on next week. El Paso has actually been the center of the southern border crisis. Considering that mid-August, more than 90,000 immigrants who unlawfully crossed the border were not expelled to Mexico, however launched downtown and allowed to stay in the United States till future court procedures.

Single city blocks were filled with hundreds of immigrants living outside throughout the week leading up to Christmas due to area restraints at centers run by nongovernmental companies.

Border Patrol representatives were nabbing approximately more than 2,000 prohibited immigrants each day in December, making the city ground absolutely no for prohibited migration on the southern border. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) deployed numerous military and state cannon fodders to the border to develop a system that funneled individuals to particular locations so that less prohibited immigrants would go unnoticed. Considering that Dec. 20, encounters of prohibited immigrants has actually considerably dropped, leaving little for Biden to see.

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Under the Biden administration, prohibited immigrant encounters have actually skyrocketed, amounting to 5 million in simply under 2 years– more than in all of the Obama’s administration’s 8 years.