{"id":2410485,"date":"2025-03-06T12:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-ripped-for-claiming-he-fought-sanctuary-cities-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:29:59","slug":"mayorkas-ripped-for-claiming-he-fought-sanctuary-cities-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-ripped-for-claiming-he-fought-sanctuary-cities-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas ripped for claiming he fought \u2018sanctuary cities\u2019 &#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\">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-ripped-for-claiming-he-fought-sanctuary-cities-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=2410485&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>The article discusses Alejandro Mayorkas, the\u2064 former Secretary of Homeland Security, \u200bwho came\u200d under criticism for \u200dhis claims\u200b made during \u2064a talk\u200d at Harvard University. Mayorkas \u200dasserted that \u2063he had\u2064 actively opposed &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; policies that\u200d protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-top-immigration-adviser-biden-agenda-would-fundamentally-erase-very-essence-of-americas-nationhood\/\" title=\"Ex-Top ... Adviser: ... Agenda \u2018Would Fundamentally Erase Very Essence Of America\u2019s Nationhood\u2019\">criminal illegal immigrants<\/a> during his time in office\u2064 under \u2062both \u2063President Obama and\u2063 President\u2063 Biden. His comments were quickly ridiculed by immigration critics,who accused him of hypocrisy,arguing that under his\u200c leadership,the number of sanctuary\u200c cities increased substantially. Jessica Vaughan, a\u200c director at the Center for\u200d Immigration studies, denounced Mayorkas&#8217;s statements, asserting that\u200b he failed too discourage sanctuary policies and instead\u2063 enabled them by redirecting federal funds to \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsoms-6-worst-policies-as-california-governor\/\" title=\"Gavin Newsom\u2019s 6 Worst ... as California Governor\">support illegal immigrants<\/a>.The \u2062article highlights the irony of Mayorkas critiquing sanctuary policies while \u200bhe had been \u2063impeached for\u200b failing to enforce \u2063immigration laws\u2063 and overseeing a significant \u200dsurge in \u2062illegal immigration.  <\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mayorkas ripped for claiming he fought &lsquo;sanctuary cities&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2029889\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The architect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-delivers-first-address-to-joint-session-of-congress\/\" title=\"... Delivers First Address to Joint Session of Congress\">worst immigration crisis<\/a> ever in America told a friendly Harvard University audience last night that he fought with <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">sanctuary city<\/a> officials over arresting criminal illegal immigrants, a claim immediately mocked by a top immigration hawk.<\/p>\n<p>Former Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alejandro-mayorkas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Alejandro Mayorkas,<\/a> impeached for failing to protect the border, told students at a Harvard Institute of Politics conference that it is &ldquo;irresponsible&rdquo; for cities to protect criminal illegal immigrants. He said it was a problem he tackled as a deputy homeland official under former President Barack Obama and as former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s homeland security chief.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3338511\/trump-joins-roosevelt-kennedy-reagan-great-communicators-club\/\">Trump joins FDR, JFK, Reagan in &lsquo;Great Communicators&rsquo; club<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3337906\/lobbyist-dumped-over-alleged-racist-texts-was-top-democratic-donor\/\">Lobbyist dumped over alleged &#8216;racist&#8217; texts was top Democratic donor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3336754\/dc-jan-6-police-bodycam-videos\/\">DC wants $1.5 million for Jan. 6 police bodycam videos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It is something that I fought as the deputy secretary of Homeland Security. It&rsquo;s something that, as the secretary, I worked around because I think it is irresponsible to release that individual and not turn that individual over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement,&rdquo; said Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>During his full four-year term, however, the sanctuary movement exploded, as did the release of criminal illegal immigrants until near the end of the former president&rsquo;s term. Biden was struggling for answers to the border crisis, which President Donald Trump seized as a top campaign concern.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Conversation with Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2021-2025)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tR-KYZstCDo?start=1891&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While there is contrarian evidence that the Biden team bowed to sanctuary policies, Mayorkas suggested that he didn&rsquo;t get credit for pressing cities for access to criminal illegal immigrants while they were held by local law enforcement. He blamed poor communication.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We lost the narrative,&rdquo; he told interviewer and former Homeland official Juliette Kayyem, who praised the policies of Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nation&rsquo;s experts and critics of sanctuary cities ripped Mayorkas&rsquo;s comments and actions today, telling Secrets that the former secretary was responsible for the surge in sanctuaries during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The remarks from Mayorkas at Harvard are the most <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">flagrantly hypocritical words imaginable<\/a>. He made the whole country a sanctuary for criminal aliens, with his open door at the border, allowing unvetted people from all over the world to enter, including terrorists, prison gangs, and human traffickers,&rdquo; said <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Vaughan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jessica Vaughan,<\/a> director of policy studies for Washington&rsquo;s Center for Immigration Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He did not lift a finger to discourage sanctuary policies; instead he made sure that billions of dollars in federal funds earmarked for disaster assistance and the homeless instead went to sanctuary cities to support illegal migrants. He allowed millions of dollars of federal awards from the Department of Justice to flow to the same law enforcement agencies that refuse to cooperate with ICE to remove criminal aliens,&rdquo; said Vaughan, who for years has mapped sanctuary towns, big cities, states, and facilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston Mayor Michelle Wu had a long day on Capital Hill. Here&#8217;s a quick recap. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wbz<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P7Rq82253Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/P7Rq82253Y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4kLWeFg4qa\">pic.twitter.com\/4kLWeFg4qa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Penny Kmitt (@pennylikeacoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pennylikeacoin\/status\/1897625202428719549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas made his comments in Boston, an infamous sanctuary city. Earlier in the day, the mayor of Boston and other big cities defended their pro-illegal policies before a House committee.<\/p>\n<p>The irony wasn&rsquo;t lost on Vaughan, who told us, &ldquo;This man, who was impeached for failing to do his job and for undermining immigration enforcement in every way possible, who inflicted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-u-turn-on-illegal-immigration-will-last-only-until-election\/\" title=\"...&#039;s U-Turn On ... Will Last Only Until Election\">worst mass migration crisis<\/a> our country has ever experienced, has the chutzpah to scold sanctuaries in from the comfortable cocoon of a stage at Harvard?&nbsp; While the mayor of Boston was sitting in front of a congressional committee being blistered all day for releasing hundreds of criminals?&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2029889\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2029889\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayorkas criticized for claiming he opposed &#8216;sanctuary cities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2410486,"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\/2025\/03\/Mayorkas-Biden-Sanctuary-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36382,5058,36985],"class_list":["post-2410485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-immigration-policy","tag-mayorkas","tag-sanctuary-cities"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mayorkas-Biden-Sanctuary-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410485","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410489,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410485\/revisions\/2410489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}