{"id":2263530,"date":"2024-06-09T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-slammed-during-interview-over-his-border-failures-very-hard-to-call-that-a-success\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T23:07:23","slug":"mayorkas-slammed-during-interview-over-his-border-failures-very-hard-to-call-that-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-slammed-during-interview-over-his-border-failures-very-hard-to-call-that-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Criticized in Interview for Border Failures: &#8216;Difficult to Deem Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-slammed-during-interview-over-his-border-failures-very-hard-to-call-that-a-success%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=2263530&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--><p>Er to\u2062 solve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">recent interview<\/a> \u200cwith ABC News&#8217;\u200d &#8220;This\u200b Week,&#8221; Department of Homeland Security Secretary\u200b Alejandro Mayorkas struggled to address questions about the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the U.S.-Mexico\u200b border. The interview focused on the president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-ca-gov-overstepped-his-authority-with-covid-order-issues-permanent-injunction-restraining-newsom-from-further-issuing-unconstitutional-orders\/\" title=\"Judge Rules CA Gov Overstepped His Authority with Covid Order, Issues Permanent Injunction Restraining Newsom From Further Issuing Unconstitutional Orders\">executive order<\/a> from last week, which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-question-about-laid-off-pipeline-workers-green-jobs\/\" title=\"Psaki Dodges Question About Laid-Off Pipeline Workers, Green Jobs\">heavily criticized<\/a> as\u200c weak by experts and \u2063critics. This order comes after President Biden initially\u200c claimed he could not use executive action to address the crisis at the border. \u2064Mayorkas was\u200b pressed by ABC&#8217;s Martha Raddatz on the \u200cadministration&#8217;s failures\u200b in dealing\u2064 with the border crisis.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas struggled during an interview over the weekend when pressed about the Biden administration\u2019s repeated failures to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas was pressed hard over his failures during a Sunday interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d while talking about Biden\u2019s border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz asked him about Biden\u2019s executive order from last week that critics and experts have widely panned as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-signs-weak-executive-order-to-address-his-border-crisis-after-claiming-he-couldnt-do-it\">weak<\/a>\u201c, which also comes after Biden previously claimed that he couldn\u2019t use executive orders to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been in place for five days now. What has the impact been?\u201d Raddatz asked. \u201cHow many migrants have been turned away between those ports of entry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas refused to answer the question and said that they were only at a \u201cvery early stage\u201d in implementing the executive order.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: ABC\u2019s This Week: Biden\u2019s executive order on the border has been in place for nearly a week. Has there been any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-australia-to-play-olympics-but-may-keep-politicians-home-over-coronavirus-not-genocide\/\" title=\"Report: Australia to Play Olympics but May Keep Politicians Home over Coronavirus, Not Genocide\">impact whatsoever<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN DHS SEC MAYORKAS: Filibusters, ultimately it\u2019s a no.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hiAPHPPblF\">pic.twitter.com\/hiAPHPPblF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1799918733193785633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Raddatz later showed Mayorkas a clip from an interview that she did with him in March 2021 where Mayorkas said at the time: \u201cWe have seen large numbers of migration in the past. We know how to address it. We have a plan. We are executing on our plan and we will succeed. This is what we do. But one thing is also clear, that it takes time. It\u2019s tough, but we can do it. This is what we do, and we will accomplish our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz then noted that many millions of illegal aliens have flooded into the U.S. under Biden and that little has changed over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be very hard to call that a success,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ABC with a rare reality check for Alejandro Mayorkas after playing a clip from 2021: \u201cThat was three years ago, since then 6.5 million migrants have been apprehended along the southern border, it\u2019d be very hard to call that a success.\u201d<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zpqMrAq2AF\">pic.twitter.com\/zpqMrAq2AF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1799919101156196763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a weekend interview, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced tough questions from Martha Raddatz on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; about the Biden administration&#8217;s failures to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Mayorkas struggled to defend his and the administration&#8217;s handling of the ongoing border crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2263531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2147902803.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2147902803.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263530","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}