Mayorkas Claims Joe Biden’s Border Policy Is ‘Working’
Breitbart | 05/10/2024 | Neil Munro
President Joe Biden’s border chief says the White House’s border plan “is working.”
But the plan is not intended to reduce migration into U.S. communities, homes, and jobs, according to May0rkas, who was impeached in February by the House of Representatives.
Instead, the border plan is intended to divert the flood of economic migrants from the cartel-run “irregular migration” pipeline into many expanding government-run quasi-legal pipelines, Mayorkas told NPR Morning Edition‘s Steve Inskeep during a May 10 interview:
Inskeep: Do you also have a policy goal to cause fewer people to arrive, fewer people to get in, fewer people to stay?
Mayorkas: Well, our goal is to eliminate to the fullest extent possible the phenomenon of what is commonly termed “irregular migration.” People placing their lives and their life savings in the hands of smugglers to arrive in between the ports of entry, which is dangerous and also feeds a criminal network. And instead, we want them to use lawful pathways to make claims for relief under United States law. That is why we have built more lawful pathways in this administration than in any other time, and we are seeking to disincentivize arriving in between the ports of entry at our dangerous southern border.
Inskeep: Is it fair to say that this isn’t working, given the sheer numbers of people who’ve continued to come to the southern border?
Mayorkas: No, it is not … I think it is working.
Inskeep: What’s the evidence that the Biden administration’s approach is working?
Mayorkas: One, the numbers [of “irregular” migrants] have decreased.
Riight.