DHS Secretary Mayorkas Releases Unserious 'Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness'

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has released a plan that purports to address the anticipated increase in mass illegal immigration at the U.S. southwest border when Title 42 is no longer in effect.

In the second line, Mayorkas quickly shifts to blaming the Trump administration for the results of his own policies, writing, "After inheriting a broken and dismantled immigration system, since January 2021 DHS has effectively managed an unprecedented number of noncitizens seeking to enter the United States and interdicted more drugs and disrupted more smuggling operations than ever before." In fact, it was the Trump administration that inherited an immigration system that had been dismantled by Mayorkas himself when he served as DHS deputy secretary under the Obama-Biden administration.

Many ICE officers are also retiring, or will soon retire, and there's no apparent plan from Mayorkas to bolster the agencies whose employees are currently relocated to the border.

Mayorkas says DHS "Will continue to refer border-related criminal activity to DOJ for prosecution where warranted." With only three sentences dedicated to this section, it's obvious Mayorkas doesn't plan for it to amount to much.

Much of his focus is NGOs, but he does say that he "Welcome[s] the ongoing dialogue we have with local leaders." Mayorkas also says that DHS is working on "Defining required criteria for CBP leadership to reference when determining whether and how to release individuals" into U.S. communities and that this criteria "Will include safety checks, notification to local officials, information on local resources and legal services" - which is something one might think Mayorkas should have had in place before he started sending thousands of largely unknown foreign nationals into American communities.

In this section, Mayorkas writes that "Human smuggling organizations peddle misinformation that the border is open, in order to profit from the vulnerability of migrants. DHS is targeting these organizations, in close collaboration with other federal agencies, state and local law enforcement, and international partners." The organization that is sending out the message that the border is open is his own.

Disrupting human smuggling operations is good - and something that DHS has always done - but that type of work is not going to change the fact that Mayorkas has gutted immigration enforcement and is allowing illegal aliens to enter the country in unprecedented numbers.
 

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