Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas held private meetings with border activists linked to liberal megadonor George Soros just before commiserating with Texas Border Patrol agents last year over the out-of-control migrant crisis, Judicial Watch has reported.
The meetings occurred during an August 2021 visit promoted by the Biden administration to temper news of a record-breaking monthly crossing of 213,000 immigrants in Texas alone. Mayorkas admitted America was losing the war against illegal immigration.
“A couple of days ago, I was down in Mexico, and I said, ‘Look, you know … if our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose, and this is unsustainable,'” he said to agents in leaked audio obtained by Fox News. “We can’t continue like this, our people in the field can’t continue, and our system isn’t built for it.”
Yet the day before, he secretly met with officials from La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, a partner to Soros’s Open Society Institute, and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, which received $80,000 from the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation in 2020, Judicial Watch claimed.
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The meeting also included Laura Pena, legal director at the Texas Civil Rights Project, a director with Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and PAC who also served as an adviser to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Obama administration, Judicial Watch said.
Another high-profile figure to meet Mayorkas was Jennifer Harbury, co-founder of the group Angry Tias & Abuelas. Harbury was once married to Guatemalan Marxist guerrilla Efrain Bamaca Velasquez.
Judicial Watch obtained records of Mayorkas’s trip after filing a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents included background information on local elected officials and judges, such as the mayors of Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo, Del Rio, Pharr, and Mission.
Judges in several border counties were concerned about the migrant crisis, and one of them wrote to Biden, demanding action.
Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez warned Biden that the situation was “an extremely pressing issue.”
But publicly, in a press conference, Mayorkas said he wanted to “debunk false information” about what he called “tremendous overcrowding” of unaccompanied children at border stations. The children had been cleared as part of a plan, while most single adults were expelled even though the administration was fighting the “Remain in Mexico” plan for migrant crossings.
The crisis started in Central America because of poverty and violence, Mayorkas said, describing a plan to spend more than $150 million in several countries to “address the root causes of irregular migration.”
Mayorkas didn’t receive a welcoming response in January when he met with Border Patrol agents in Yuma to talk about Biden’s immigration policies. The agents vented that they were not given support to handle a massive number of illegal immigrants crossing the border. Mayorkas was vague when asked how many people were part of the Remain in Mexico policy.
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“Numbers are not where they need to be,” he said.
Another agent responded, “You said you’re going to change it. The only thing that’s changed is it’s gotten worse.”
