{"id":2284138,"date":"2024-06-26T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-touts-40-drop-in-migrant-arrests-since-biden-executive-order-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:45:50","slug":"mayorkas-touts-40-drop-in-migrant-arrests-since-biden-executive-order-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-touts-40-drop-in-migrant-arrests-since-biden-executive-order-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas touts 40% drop in migrant arrests since Biden executive order &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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-touts-40-drop-in-migrant-arrests-since-biden-executive-order-washington-examiner%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=2284138&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>Illegal immigration \u2062at the U.S.-Mexico\u2062 border has significantly decreased following President Joe\u2064 Biden&#8217;s decision\u2063 to halt asylum \u200capplications through an executive\u200b action earlier in June. This move led to a 40% drop in illegal immigrant \u2063arrests at the border. Department \u2062of Homeland \u200bSecurity \u2064Secretary\u2062 Alejandro Mayorkas, in\u200c a press conference in Tucson, Arizona, confirmed that the average daily \u2062arrests dropped from 4,000 to approximately 2,400.\u200c Mayorkas \u2064emphasized that this policy\u200b change is deterring people from \u2064attempting to cross the border unlawfully and has led to more stringent\u2063 consequences for\u2062 those who do. Additionally, the U.S. \u200dhas increased the deportation of illegal immigrants, conducting over\u200c 100 flights and repatriating \u206224,000 individuals\u200c to \u200b20 \u2063countries.\u2062 This executive action,\u200d however, has faced criticism from Republicans, who argue it exceeds presidential authority. \u200cMayorkas himself was impeached by the\u2064 House earlier in the year, accused of\u2062 failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-to-illegals-you-dont-have-to-go-home-but-you-cant-stay-here\/\" title=\"Message to undocumented immigrants: You can't remain here, but we won't force you to leave.\">uphold immigration laws<\/a>\u2064 and a breach of public trust during the\u200d ongoing 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<div>\n<p>Illegal immigration at the southern border with Mexico has dropped dramatically since President Joe Biden took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3027012\/biden-announces-midnight-border-freeze-republicans-left-me-no-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>executive action<\/a> earlier this month to stop migrants from seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration took a victory lap Wednesday as it announced a 40% drop in illegal immigrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border following its early June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3027012\/biden-announces-midnight-border-freeze-republicans-left-me-no-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ban<\/a> on asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the entire southern border, Border Patrol encounters have dropped by over 40%,\u201d said Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security secretary, during a press conference in Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday. \u201cWe are removing more noncitizens without a legal basis to stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cbp-head-biden-administration-is-facilitating-illegal-immigration-into-america\/\" title=\"Former CBP Head: Biden Administration \u2018Is Facilitating Illegal Immigration\u2019 Into America\">illegal immigrants apprehended<\/a> by Border Patrol agents over the past seven days was down to less than 2,400 arrests per day compared to roughly 4,000 earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree weeks ago, in the face of congressional inaction, Biden used his executive authority and suspended the entry of noncitizens across the southern border,\u201d said Mayorkas, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2853744\/alejandro-mayorkas-impeached\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>impeached<\/a> by the House earlier this year for his handling of the border crisis. \u201cWe are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gag-order-expanded-to-include-judges-daughter\/\" title=\"Restraining order on Trump now covers judge's daughter too\">imposing stricter consequences<\/a> for those who cross the border without authorization. These actions are changing the calculus for those considering crossing our border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-sheriff-its-absolutely-true-that-biden-is-releasing-illegals-into-u-s-without-covid-tests\/\" title=\"Texas Sheriff: \u2018It\u2019s Absolutely True\u2019 That Biden Is Releasing Illegals Into U.S. Without COVID Tests\">releasing illegal immigrants<\/a> into the United States, DHS has carried out flights returning illegal immigrants to their home countries at a higher rate than before the executive action. More than 100 flights to 20 countries have disembarked, resulting in 24,000 people repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas was indicted by the House in February after Republicans charged him with willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and\u00a0a breach of the public trust related to a border crisis that began in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have criticized the executive action as going beyond Biden\u2019s authority by setting immigration levels when that is a responsibility of the legislative branch, not the executive branch. Biden has subsequently announced plans to provide new pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens, prompting the GOP to denounce the move as an \u201camnesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Congress can deliver a full and lasting solution. Only Congress, through legislation, can fix what everyone would agree is a broken immigration system that was last updated almost 30 years ago,\u201d said Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the first executive action earlier this month, Biden, who faces difficult reelection prospects,\u00a0blamed Republicans who refused to pass a Senate border bill for his decision to take action.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order, along with two rules issued by the Department of Justice and DHS, will allow federal law enforcement to remove migrants quickly after they cross illegally and are apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>It does this by making it much more difficult for migrants in government custody to request asylum, thus allowing federal authorities to remove those who fail the screening process from the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Migrants will be returned home within \u201ca matter of days if not hours,\u201d according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters Tuesday morning. For migrants who do state that they fear being returned to their home country, they will be screened against a \u201csubstantially higher standard\u201d than the threshold that has been used as the basis for being able to seek asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new protocols, the asylum ban will remain in effect if the seven-day average of migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents between the ports of entry is above 2,500 arrests per day. The ban will only be walked back if the seven-day average drops below 1,500 apprehensions daily for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Joe Biden implemented executive actions to halt asylum-seeking at the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigration has significantly decreased. The administration reported a 40% reduction in arrests of illegal immigrants following the early June asylum ban, marking a notable enforcement success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2284139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/mayorkas-border-asylum.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,32911,5058,32910,32076],"class_list":["post-2284138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-executive-order","tag-mayorkas","tag-migrant-arrests","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/mayorkas-border-asylum.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284138","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\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}