Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took a victory lap Thursday over the dropping number of illegal immigrants trying to sneak across the southern border, saying it's evidence that his carrot-and-stick approach is paying off.
He said a combination of building new “pathways” for unauthorized migrants to reach the U.S., threatening “consequences” on those that still come outside of those pathways, and higher standards to discourage bogus asylum claims have tamped down on the numbers.“We are meeting people where they are,” Mr. Mayorkas said at the Aspen Security Forum.
Given the current system, he suggested, the best alternative is to try to siphon them away from smugglers, who can charge $10,000 or more per person, and who have been blamed for record numbers of migrant deaths over the last two years. The Border Patrol, which nabs people who try to sneak in between official crossings, said its arrests along the U.S.-Mexico boundary dropped from nearly 184,000 in April to fewer than 100,000 in June. Meanwhile, officers at the ports of entry along the southern border saw encounters rise from about 28,000 in April to 45,000 in June.
Other Republicans point to ongoing dangers from the immigration crisis, including a record number of terrorism suspects being encountered sneaking across the border from Mexico and record flows of fentanyl being detected. The Congressional Budget Office said at least 1.5 million of those had been caught and released under Mr. Mayorkas’s “parole” authority between Oct. 1, 2021, and April 2023. The Center for Immigration Studies says the total number of catch-and-release migrants is more than 2 million.
“That speaks to the level of desperation,” he said. “That daughter may not be fleeing persecution … but at the same time she’s not gaming the system.”
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