Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to spit out any substantive answers during an interview Wednesday which included the moment he was questioned about the prospect of being impeached.
Asked by host Bret Baier during an appearance on Fox News’s “Special Report” whether he’d voluntarily step down if impeached from office, he responded by rambling off his list of supposed accomplishments.
Watch the first half of the interview below:
“Bret, I lead [260,000] incredibly dedicated and talented men and women of the Department of Homeland Security,” he said. “I will continue to lead them in advancing the mission of protecting the American people.”
“That’s what we do in the area of immigration, the area of cybersecurity in our fight against human trafficking, in saving communities devastated by extreme weather events. We do so much for the American people and I’m incredibly proud to do it,” he added.
Notice his mention of “weather events.” Like others in this administration, he genuinely believes climate change is the root cause behind the hordes of migrants illegally streaming across the southern border.
“Border Patrol, in the month of December, processed more migrants entering the United States illegally than any month in the history of that agency. Why is that happening?”
MAYORKAS: “Climate change” pic.twitter.com/HOXFzyNSx0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 3, 2024
Baier then tried asking Mayorkas about Vice President Kamala Harris’ role as the southern border czar.
“Shortly after taking office, President Biden tapped Vice President Harris to address the root causes of migration,” the host said. “How specifically has the vice president helped in your efforts to keep the border safe?”
The secretary replied with a B.S. answer about her “investments” in other countries.
“The vice president has raised more than $3 billion of investments in some of the countries of origin, specifically those in Central America,” he said.
“That is a long-term solution that we remain dedicated to. But in the meantime, we are enforcing vigorously our country’s immigration laws and working to fix them in a fundamentally broken system,” he added.
He was outright lying this time. The Biden administration has not been “enforcing vigorously our country’s immigration laws.”
If anything, the administration has been impeding efforts to actually enforce the country’s immigration laws:
DOJ threatens to sue Texas if new state migrant law enforced – Abbott decries ‘such hostility’ https://t.co/XcBPzOHNWj via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) December 29, 2023
During another segment of the interview, Baier asked Mayorkas to specify exactly how many illegal aliens have been released into the country’s interior by the administration. Mayorkas replied by claiming Baier doesn’t understand how the asylum process works.
“When somebody enters the country, we place them in immigration enforcement proceedings pursuant to immigration law, and if their claim for relief, their claim to remain in the United States succeeds, then by law they are able to stay here,” he said.
But that wasn’t the question. Moreover, Mayorkas neglected to mention the administration’s backlog of cases — a backlog so severe some immigration hearings aren’t scheduled until the 2030s.
Baier responded by pressing for a “ballpark” figure, to which Mayorkas admitted that there have been “well more than a million” illegals released annually. But he then turned around and blamed Congress for this figure, arguing that the administration needs them to do their jobs.
However, congressional Republicans have argued that the administration is the one that needs to do ITS job.
Watch the second half of the interview below:
Next, Baier asked Mayorkas whether President Joe Biden’s infamous 2020 presidential debate comment calling for illegals to “immediately surge to the border” had created a “magnet” for illegals.
Again the secretary spewed B.S., this time claiming the real magnet is the the country’s broken immigration system.
“I will tell you what I think is a magnet, and it’s a function of our broken system,” he said. “[That] is why precisely I am working with Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate to deliver a solution for the American people, to deliver a fix to an immigration system that everyone agrees is broken and that is long overdue.”
But not mentioned by him was the fact that the system is “broken” only in the sense that the Biden administration refuses to enforce the clear-as-day immigration laws already on the books.
Secretary Mayorkas just claimed on Brett Baier’s show that they removed a “RECORD Number” of illegal aliens through deportation. It’s a lie, and Brett just called him out on it. He keeps saying the laws are broken. They are NOT broken; they are just not enforced. He has said…
— John Fabbricatore (@JohnE_Fabb) January 4, 2024
Lastly, Baier asked Mayorkas straight-up whether he’d accept border funding if the funding could only be used for detaining and removing illegal aliens. The secretary replied with a ‘no.’
Listen:
BAIER: Would you accept the extra [border] funding on the condition that the funds could ONLY be used for detention and removal [of illegal aliens] — but not release into the country?”
MAYORKAS in a nutshell: Nopic.twitter.com/X6EJjIvy22
— National Immigration Center for Enforcement (@NICEnforcement) January 5, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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