Mayorkas ripped for claiming he fought ‘sanctuary cities’

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The architect of the worst immigration crisis ever in America told a friendly Harvard University audience last night that he fought with sanctuary city officials over arresting criminal illegal immigrants, a claim immediately mocked by a top immigration hawk.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, impeached for failing to protect the border, told students at a Harvard Institute of Politics conference that it is “irresponsible” for cities to protect criminal illegal immigrants. He said it was a problem he tackled as a deputy homeland official under former President Barack Obama and as former President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief.

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