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MAYORKAS’ BAD MEMORY. On March 1, newly-confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met the press in the White House briefing room. He famously refused to admit that the influx of illegal crossers on the U.S.-Mexico border is a “crisis,” preferring instead to call it a “challenge.” And then he just as famously addressed potential illegal crossers with this message: “We are not saying ‘Don’t come.’ We are saying, ‘Don’t come now because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible.'”