Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas distanced himself from the border crisis Sunday, arguing that fixing the country’s immigration system is Congress' job.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the U.S. has a ‘broken immigration system’ and calls the border crisis a ‘challenge’ in his speech in Brownsville, Texas.distanced himself from the border crisis Sunday, saying the country’s immigration system has been broken"since the ‘90s" and it’s ultimately up to Congress to fix it.
is doing, everything that our partners across the federal government are doing is within a broken immigration system. The president passed to Congress a proposal to fix our broken immigration system on the first day in office." "Margaret," Mayorkas responded,"we have been pushing for immigration legislation since day one. And by the way, it didn't start on day one – this is a decades-long problem. The immigration system hasn't been fixed since the '90s."
A Border Patrol agent leads migrants to a temporary processing tent on May 4, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas.
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