{"id":1455507,"date":"2022-04-27T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455507"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:59:51","slug":"mayorkas-says-with-a-straight-face-the-biden-admin-effectively-managed-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-says-with-a-straight-face-the-biden-admin-effectively-managed-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Says With A Straight Face The Biden Admin \u2018Effectively Managed\u2019 Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayorkas-says-with-a-straight-face-the-biden-admin-effectively-managed-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455507&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Department of Homeland (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Wednesday with a straight face that the Biden administration has \u201ceffectively managed\u201d the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe inherited a broken and dismantled system that is already under strain,\u201d Mayorkas said while speaking before the House Appropriations subcommittee. \u201cIt is not built to manage the current levels and types of migratory flows. Only Congress can fix this. Yet, we have effectively managed an unprecedented number of non-citizens seeking to enter the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1519331702019170306?s=20&#038;t=JhHcqDPDlXK4aGpY1t0whQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the administration expects \u201cmigration levels to increase\u201d once Title 42 is lifted. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/20\/department-of-homeland-security-border-congress-terror-watchlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Border Authorities Arrested 42 People On Terror Watchlist Under Biden, DHS Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas then laid out the DHS\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/biden-title42-migrants-border-mayorkas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan<\/a> to address the border crisis and impending surge. Mayorkas laid out six pillars of the \u201cDHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness\u201d which include increasing personnel and transportation resources, medical support and facilities, enhancing processing efficiency, targeting drug smugglers and deterring illegal migration amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>In March alone agents arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/border-patrol-migrants-cbp-title-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">209,906<\/a> people, the highest number of monthly arrests at the southern border since March of 2000. Meanwhile a record two million migrants were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/25\/customs-border-protection-illiegal-immigration-2-million-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encountered<\/a> at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021, and authorities confiscated $3.31 billion in counterfeit goods, more than 319,000 pounds of marijuana, over 190,000 pounds of methamphetamine and more than 97,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas, who is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/border-dhs-mayorkas-gop-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible impeachment<\/a> by Republicans, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mayorkas-homeland-security-title-42-aaa073e1-935d-4fc1-a8b4-32acd5693bb5.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> worried about plans to lift <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/department-homeland-security-immigration-officers-decide-asylum-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Title 42<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump-era <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/08\/marco-rubio-letter-joe-biden-slamming-decision-pull-title-42-enforce-covid-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy<\/a> that allowed DHS officials to rapidly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/05\/joe-biden-customs-and-border-protection-department-of-health-and-human-services-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expel<\/a> migrants on public health grounds was set to be <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/25\/title-42-border-missouri-court-migrants-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0May 23 but a Louisiana judge temporarily blocked the administration from ending the policy pending a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has received <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/joe-biden-john-fetterman-title-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan pushback<\/a> over the ending of Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not end Title 42 until we have a detailed plan in place,\u201d Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who is running for the state\u2019s open Senate seat as a Democrat, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/18\/more-dem-senate-hopefuls-split-with-biden-on-border-00025925?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=a2fb2fdb-60ef-4484-87e1-5a659608dd77&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. \u201cAnd look, we don\u2019t only need a long-term and detailed plan here for ending Title 42, but we still need to fix our broken immigration system as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/14\/kyrsten-sinema-title-42-mask-mandate-transportation-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a> also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/07\/mark-kelly-kyrsten-sinema-joe-biden-title-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined<\/a> Senate Republicans recently in an attempt to block the ending of the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Wednesday with a straight face that the Biden administration has \u201ceffectively managed\u201d the border crisis.\u201cWe inherited a broken and dismantled system that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1480691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}