Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday shrugged off attempts to blame Biden's border policy for the horrific slaughter of Americans at the hands of illegal migrants, saying, "The individual who is responsible for a heinous criminal act is the criminal."
His comment during a press conference from a Border Patrol aircraft hangar in Tucson, Arizona - some 70 miles from the nearest border crossing - came in response to a question about 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was brutalized and murdered in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants who were released into the US earlier this year.
Border agents quickly responded with skepticism to Mayorkas' claims that the DHS was sufficiently vetting anybody crossing the US border, saying his comments Wednesday show he's living in "Fairytale land."
"I don't know what Mayorkas is smoking because it needs to be legalized," one Border Patrol source told The Post.
He defended the border vetting procedures - even while acknowledging at least eight ISIS-linked suspected terrorists managed to slip through US custody and enter the country.
The ISIS terror suspects crossed the border and were let into the country and were only apprehended thanks to an FBI tipoff, ICE sources previously confirmed to The Post.
After insisting Biden's border policies were sound, Mayorkas went on to blame congressional gridlock for the nation's troubles while highlighting a major funding package which failed to pass in May. "Executive actions are no substitute for congressional action. Only congress and deliver a full and lasting solution," he said.
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