Mayorkas: If Biden Acted on Border Earlier, ‘It Would Be Litigated Earlier’

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Posted on 01/15/2025 5:12:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended President Joe Biden waiting to take executive action on the border in light of criticism from Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of ICE P.J. Lechleitner by stating that if Biden had acted earlier, “it would be litigated earlier and the outcome is still uncertain.”

Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “President Biden also didn’t take new executive action until June of last year, and that action has now resulted in, what? A 60% drop in encounters at the U.S. southern border. I’m sure you have seen there was an interview given by the outgoing ICE Director, a man named P.J. Lechleitner, who said that Mr. Biden should have taken that kind of action sooner. He said, in part, this, ‘The administration should have taken that action earlier, and I think the career people in DHS would have liked that, [and] all of us in DHS, quite frankly. I don’t know if anybody in DHS wouldn’t have wanted that earlier.’ Is he wrong?”

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