Mayorkas called border crisis ‘unsustainable,’ but swift response is lacking

Published August 29, 2021 11:00am ET



Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas may have called the level of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border “unsustainable,” but he is not taking immediate action to respond to the crisis, according to immigration experts.

In a surprising admission, the Biden administration’s top border official admitted earlier this month in private talks that “if our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose, and this is unsustainable.”

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