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(Bloomberg) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers Wednesday that the “unprecedented challenges” at the U.S.-Mexico border cannot be resolved overnight, “due in large part to the damage done over the last four years.”
In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, Mayorkas said the Trump administration left behind an inhumane and inadequate system that his department is working swiftly to revamp.
“President Biden has made one of his top priorities reversing the effects of the previous administration’s cruel immigration policies that separated parents from their children to deter others from seeking to enter this country,” Mayorkas said in his prepared remarks.
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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked President Biden if he needed to explicitly tell migrants not to come to the United States during an interview Tuesday night. The interview followed a report that more than 13,000 children have been apprehended at the border. This shocking number is a 20-year high, and many will remain in detention and mass shelters longer than the law allows until alternative shelters like the Dallas convention center and tent cities can be made ready.
Amid a surge of migrants and unaccompanied minors on the U.S. southern border, Stephanopoulos asked the president, “Do you have to say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come’?”
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In a social media post made Tuesday morning, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged the situation at the southwest border.
Mayorkas said the situation at the southwest border is difficult, but that work is being done around the clock to manage it. We are making progress and we are executing on our plan, Mayorkas said in a statement. It will take time and we will not waver in our commitment to succeed.
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