Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he doesn’t take “responsibility” for the influx of illegal immigration into the United States.
Mayorkas appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday after he narrowly avoided impeachment earlier in the week. Host Kristen Welker asked him if he felt responsible for the border after President Joe Biden referred to it as a “crisis.”
“It certainly is a crisis, and well, we don’t bear responsibility for a broken system. We’re doing a tremendous amount within that broken system,” Mayorkas said. “But fundamentally, fundamentally, Congress is the only one who can fix it.”
The vote to impeach Mayorkas failed by one vote, 215 to 216, when Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) switched his vote from being for the resolution to against it. This prevented the resolution from failing in a tie and will allow Republicans to bring up the resolution in the future.
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Customs and Border Protection processed more than 302,000 people at the U.S.-Mexico border in December alone. This is in addition to the over 10 million immigrants who have reportedly entered the country illegally since Biden took office. It is the most recorded in that amount of time of any administration.
While immigrants disproportionally migrated in from the southern border at a greater number than those coming across the northern border in fiscal 2023, which ended last September, agents did arrest 10,021 people at the northern border. This number was 11 times greater than the number reported in 2021.
