Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas touted the Biden administration's policies as the reason for a sharp decline in migrant encounters amid a record-breaking border surge.
"What the secretary failed to say is that this week has seen more crossings than any time, any week in our history," Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said in an interview with CNN following Mayorkas' interview Sunday."Yes, there was some anticipation. And so people started coming across at higher numbers, in fact, record-breaking numbers at the first part of the week.
Migrants walk into the Rio Grande from the bank of the river as they cross to enter the United States on Thursday in Matamoros, Mexico. "My staff would tell you, if it was under 1,000 apprehensions the day before that was a relatively good number, and if it was above 1,000 that was a relatively bad number and I was going to be in a bad mood the whole day," he said on MSNBC in March 2019.including troops to the border, and has said it is stiffening penalties for illegal entry once Title 42 ends.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, ahead of the lifting of Title 42.
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