Category: Alejandro Mayorkas

US Deports Over 1,000 Haitians But DHS Declines to Say How Many Released Into America

DEL RIO, Texas—The United States has deported more than 1,000 Haitians who streamed into the small border city of Del Rio, Texas, although officials are refusing to say how many others have been released into America’s interior. The number of illegal immigrants, primarily from Haiti, rapidly grew under the international bridge near the border last week, at…


DHS Touts Counter-Domestic Extremism Plan, But Rights Groups Fear Threats to Civil Liberties

At the Sept. 21 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on counterterrorism, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas touted a raft of new programs aimed at combating domestic extremism—many of which are raising red flags among interest groups across the political spectrum. The new DHS plans follow a March 2021 intelligence community report that deems white supremacy and violent…


DHS Touts Counter-Domestic Extremism Plan; Rights Groups Cite Threats to Civil Liberties

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is touting a raft of new programs aimed to combat domestic extremism—many of which are raising red flags among interest groups across the political spectrum. The new DHS plans follow a March intelligence community report that deems white supremacy and violent domestic extremism as the most dangerous terror threat…


Deep Dive (Sept. 20): Homeland Security Secretary Warns Illegal Immigrants: ‘Not the Way to Do It’

The fencing around the Capitol has come back down. The violence expected over the weekend at the Justice for J6 event—in reference to the events on Jan. 6—didn’t pan out. While the event ended without incident, there were some clashes and four arrests. Police confirmed that between 400 and 500 people showed up. Officers wore riot…


Homeland Security Secretary to Travel to Mexico Border

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas plans to travel to the U.S.–Mexico border amid the illegal immigration crisis there. “I will be traveling to the border myself,” Mayorkas said on CNN on Sunday. Mayorkas did not say when or where he would be going and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to emailed…


Homeland Security Secretary Travels to Mexico Border Amid Immigration Crisis

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to the U.S.–Mexico border on Monday amid the illegal immigration crisis there. Mayorkas went to Del Rio, a Texas border town that’s been overwhelmed by thousands of illegal immigrants in recent days. Mayorkas was taking the trip “to receive an operational briefing on steps being taken to address the…


40,000 From Afghanistan Airlift Have Entered United States: Official

Some 40,000 people airlifted from Afghanistan have arrived in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday. U.S. troops flew or facilitated the flight of more than 120,000 people from the airport in Kabul during about two-and-a-half weeks through Aug. 30, when the troops withdrew from Afghanistan completely. Approximately 13 percent of the…


GOP Demands Action on Border Crisis After Alleged Leaked Audio of DHS Secretary Surfaces

GOP members urged the Biden administration to address the border crisis after leaked audio of Alejandro Mayorkas—Secretary of Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—surfaced, which shows him calling the border situation “unsustainable.” “Glad Secretary Mayorkas agrees—the situation at the border is ‘unsustainable.’ Now what is their plan to fix it?” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)…


Biden Administration Warns Cubans, Haitians Against Sailing to US: ‘Do Not Risk Your Life’

Cubans and Haitans should not try using boats to migrate to the United States, a top Biden administration official said Tuesday. “The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: if you take to the…


Biden Admin Is Still Using a Trump-Era Order to Expel Migrants Despite Ending ‘Remain in Mexico’

The Biden administration continues rapidly expelling most migrants under a Trump-era public health order despite ending the former administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program, officials announced Tuesday. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas formally ended the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) requiring people to wait in Mexico as their cases proceeded through immigration courts….