Four years into his term as Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas has insisted Congress is to blame for the tsunami of illegal immigration at the southern border.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press” with Kristen Welker, Mayorkas admitted there was a crisis at the border but that he bears no responsibility for it:
It certainly is a crisis, and, well, we don’t bear responsibility for a broken system, and we’re doing a tremendous amount within that broken system. But, fundamentally, fundamentally, Congress is the only one who can fix that.
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There is no question that we have a broken system. There is no question that we have a challenge, a crisis at the border. And there is no question that Congress needs to fix it. And we’re doing everything we can within that broken system, short of legislation to address what is a not just a challenge for the United States but one…
