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CNS NEWS: DHS Secretary Mayorkas: What’s Going on at the Border ‘Is Not an Invasion’
Washington,
May 26, 2021
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Immigration
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday that what is happening at the border “is not an invasion” and that the Biden administration is improving the administrative process in a way not done before by prior administrations. Mayorkas insisted that what’s happening at the border “is not an invasion,” adding that “people are not coming in without regular order.”
Congressman, a few things. First of all, I appreciate your recognition of the bravery of the men and women of the United States Border Patrol. Secondly, I appreciate your articulation of the cruelty of the human smuggling networks and the cartels. That is precisely why we have enhanced our efforts to tackle the activities of the smugglers, the traffickers, the cartels. We have operated for example. We’ve launched Operation Sentinel in the last four weeks to build upon the work that preceded this administration. Your characterization, however, with respect to how we are addressing individuals apprehended at the border, I must respectively disagree with from beginning to end. Individuals are expelled under Title 42 of the United States code. Those who are not expelled are placed into immigration proceedings where they are able to make the claims for relief under laws that Congress passed, and if their claims for relief do not prevail, then they are removed from the United States, and so we continue to enforce the immigration laws, and I should say that we are improving the administrative processes in a way that has not been done before – not by the prior administration, nor by administrations before then. Most notably, I should comment to ensure that the asylum system while making sure that it follows due process requirements is more expeditious and delivers justice with greater speed for the American public and for the migrants who are claiming humanitarian relief, and so it is not an invasion. People are not coming in without regular order. They are being placed in immigration proceedings. They have the ability to make a claim as the law provides to an asylum officer, to an immigration judge in the courts of the United States. ### |