New in PJ Media:
Any objective history of the four disastrous years of the Biden regime will highlight Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as one of the chief villains of the piece. America’s southern border was wide open on Mayorkas’ watch, and millions of unvetted migrants, including an unknowable number of criminals and terrorists, streamed in, as the Democrats hoped they would secure their majority for generations to come.
Only now, nearly a year and a half later, as President Donald Trump acts to secure the border and restore the nation’s sovereignty, is Mayorkas admitting that maybe, just maaaaybe, his scheme wasn’t the greatest idea.
Politico reported that Mayorkas finally “acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. should have acted sooner to tighten immigration controls at the U.S. border with Mexico.” Has the farther-than-far-left Mayorkas suddenly become an America-First patriot? Of course not. Most likely, he realizes the political damage that Old Joe’s open border gambit did to the Democrats politically, and is trying to stop the bleeding.
In doing so, Mayorkas, as villainous as ever, cheerfully contradicts what he said when he was busy letting in any certified homo sapiens into the country. Back in July 2022, Mayorkas declared, in true Orwellian 2+2=5, War Is Peace fashion: “Look, the border is secure. We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.”
The statement was as revealing as it was dishonest. For Mayorkas and the rest of the people who were running Old Joe’s White House, an open border was a secure border. It just depended on what your definition of “secure” was. The objective was not to make Americans secure from illegal migrant criminals and terrorists; the objective was to make future elections secure for the Democrats. From that standpoint, sure, the border was secure.
Now that the whole scheme has blown up and Trump is back in the Oval Office instead of prison, where the Democrats had hoped he would be at this point, Mayorkas is complaining about having had to run what was already a “broken immigration system,” and even had the audacity to complain that one of the key aspects of that brokenness was the “low bar” the system set for who it was admitting into the country.
Yet Mayorkas was instrumental in setting that low bar. As far back as Sept. 2021, he admitted that most of the Afghans who had been brought over here after the Kabul withdrawal debacle were not actually holders of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), which had been issued to people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan. “Of the over 60,000 individuals who have been brought into the United States” at that time, Mayorkas said, “and I will give you approximate figures and I will verify them, approximately 7 percent have been United States citizens. Approximately 6 percent have been lawful permanent residents. Approximately 3 percent have been individuals who are in receipt of the Special Immigrant Visas.” Yes, just three percent.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
To this day, despite Tapper/Thomson’s book on that administration, we still don’t know who exactly was running it
Which leaves unanswered the question of how much of this “open borders” idea was Majorkas’ own, vs that of the people running the regime from behind? We have yet to find out how many of the pardons were signed by the autopen, vs the ones like Hunter that were signed by Joe himself
ploome says
another totally repulsive individual who really should be deported as an enemy of the United States