Category: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

41 Percent of Illegal Immigrant Group Biden Admin Released Into US Never Showed Up for Court Dates

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has yet to issue court summons for about 82 percent of the illegal immigrants it allowed into the United States after a federal court ordered a halt on a Biden administration immigration parole program. In May, Judge T. Kent Wetherell II of Florida’s Northern federal court district…


Lawmaker Raises Concerns Over FEMA’s Role in Facilitating Illegal Immigration

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) questioned a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official on the body’s participation in helping the United States cope with the crisis of illegal immigration. In a Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology hearing entitled “The Future of FEMA: Agency Perspectives with Administrator Criswell,” held on July 13, the future of FEMA…


Republican Mayra Flores Announces Campaign to Regain Her Texas House Seat

Mayra Flores, a staunch and conservative Republican, had a short stay in Congress, in the House of Representatives, and she is committed to returning to Washington D.C. and Capitol Hill.   Ms. Flores, 37, seeks to regain the seat she held representing the Texas 34th congressional district, which is located in the southern part of Texas…


House Republicans Call for Defunding Mayorkas’s Salary Over Border Crisis

House Republicans are contemplating legislation that would eliminate Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s salary in response to mistrust over the failure to enforce the U.S. southern border. Republican legislators are now insisting that Mr. Mayorkas’s salary be part of the impending government funding dispute. Among those Republicans is Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who said in a…


Mayorkas Defends Administration’s Preparations for End of Title 42 as GOP Pins Blame

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on May 14 said that the flood of illegal immigrants anticipated following the expiration of Title 42 on Thursday has not happened, and that the Biden administration has designed and put in place historic and effective immigration regulations.   However, in the two days prior to Title 42 ending, U.S. border…


DHS ‘Surging Personnel’ to Border Ahead of Title 42 Ending: Mayorkas

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday the administration was surging personnel at the border in anticipation of the expected influx of illegal immigrants at the expiration of Title 42. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in the process of “surging personnel to the border, including more than 1,400 DHS personnel, 1,000 processing…


Democratic Lawmaker Urges Mayorkas to Work With GOP on Immigration Solution

A Democrat member of Congress has demanded that President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas work with Republicans to find a bipartisan solution on immigration as Title 42 nears an end. In her May 8 letter (pdf) to the Department of Homeland Security head, Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) warned that the anticipated influx…


Homeland Security Plans to Integrate AI to Tackle Critical Missions

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to form a task force that will explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance “critical homeland security missions.” The rapid evolution of the threat environment requires the Department to evolve along with it, said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in an April 21 press release….


Hawley Accuses Mayorkas of Failing to Stop the Trafficking of Minors Across the Border

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) says tens of thousands of children illegally trafficked across the U.S.–Mexico border are being forced into labor on American soil. The senator accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of allowing migrant minors to enter the country illegally and claimed that he has been pressuring agencies to bypass the vetting process for…


House Republicans Say Homeland Security Chief’s $60 Billion Budget Concedes Border Cannot Be Secured

Any federal department head with a $60.4 billion annual spending request is going to see fiscal hawks on Congressional panels flash their budget-cutting knives in appropriations hearings. But when it comes to embattled United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas—literally, the face of President Joe Biden’s much-maligned border and immigration policies—House Republicans…