DHS Secretary Mayorkas gets cold shoulder from border agents during tense meeting: report

The US homeland safety secretary met with pissed off border patrol brokers in Arizona Wednesday amid the disaster of Latin American migrants making an attempt to enter the nation from Mexico.

Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas advised brokers who patrol the Yuma Sector alongside California and Arizona that he understood the inflow had made their jobs more durable.

“The job has not gotten any simpler over the previous few months and it was very, very troublesome all through 2021,” Mayorkas advised the brokers, in accordance with a recording of the remarks obtained by Townhall.

Since March of final yr, border brokers have encountered not less than 165,000 individuals a month making an attempt to illegally cross into the nation, a greater than three-fold enhance than the yr earlier than, below the Trump administration, in accordance with Customs and Border Safety statistics.

“I do know apprehending households and youngsters isn't what you signed as much as do. And now we received a composition that's altering much more with Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and the like, it simply will get tougher,” Mayorkas stated within the recording.

Brazilian migrants
Brazilian migrants stroll alongside the border fence between the US and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona.
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Migrant families
President Joe Biden shut down the “Stay in Mexico” program over humanitarian considerations for asylum seekers who had been dwelling in horrible circumstances.
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As brokers complained they had been getting pulled off the border to deal with the processing of the unlawful border crossers, one employee turned his again on Mayorkas, a supply advised the outlet.

“Let me simply say, you may flip your again on me however I received’t flip my again on you,” the cupboard member reportedly stated, as he pledged to ensure the employees had the assets to guard the southern boundary.

The offended agent retorted that Mayorkas had turned his again first, the outlet stated.

“I do know the insurance policies of this administration usually are not significantly standard with US Customs and Border Safety, however that’s the truth and let’s see what we will do inside that framework,” Mayorkas reportedly added.

Brazilian migrants
Border brokers report not less than 165,000 individuals a month making an attempt to illegally cross into the nation.
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Asylum seekers
The Division of Homeland Safety has struggled to discover a resolution to the migrant disaster.
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The contentious go to got here because the US was reinstating the 2019 “Stay In Mexico” coverage, that pressured these searching for asylum to attend south of the border for his or her hearings.

President Joe Biden shut down this system over humanitarian considerations on his first day in workplace after tens of 1000's of asylum seekers had been being held in crime-ridden makeshift encampments.

The administration was pressured by a court docket order to renew this system final summer time. It conceded that the coverage “probably contributed to diminished migratory flows,” and was working with Mexico to enhance circumstances for migrants as officers regularly reinstated it from Texas to the Pacific Ocean.

“We're implementing the ‘Stay in Mexico’ program in sure areas as we construct the capability, and bear in mind we depend on the partnership with Mexico to reimplement that program and we’re working via all of it alongside the border in compliance with the court docket’s order,” Mayorkas advised KYMA Wednesday.

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