Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, perhaps the only unindicted visa fraudster ever put in charge of immigration, reiterated again this week that he will not permit Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport illegal aliens.
It wasn’t the first time Mayorkas proudly said he will ignore the law, and aid and abet illegal immigration. Nor is it a first for DHS. The subversion began long ago with the Obama administration.
But it is a reminder that Mayorkas, an immigrant born in Cuba, is an open-borders subversive.
70K Afghans
After a relatively anodyne opening, Mayorkas explained the no-deportation policy he announced on September 30. At the time, 40,000 Haitian illegals were heading through Mexico toward the U.S. border, and Mayorkas had permitted 12,000 to enter the country.
“The fact an individual is a removable noncitizen therefore should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them,” Mayorkas wrote at the time:
We will use our discretion and focus our enforcement resources in a more targeted way. Justice and our country’s well-being require it. …
[DHS will] focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security and thus threaten America’s well-being.
“Justice” doesn’t require it but anyway, such is the memo’s expansive list of criteria that permits illegal aliens to stay here, removing them will be impossible unless they mount an armed assault on the FBI building.
And even, removal would be doubtful. DHS implemented the open-borders guidelines in December.
Yesterday in Washington, D.C., Mayorkas explained again that illegals are welcome to jump the border and find a place to live anywhere they wish. Though the border with Mexico is one of his agency’s “initial responsibilities” and a “primary focus” of its work, he really wanted to “speak about “something more, something different,” he said:
On September 30 … I issued new immigration enforcement guidelines. And in those guidelines, I articulated what I felt was a very important principle: that we will not dedicate our limited enforcement resources to apprehend individuals who have been here in this country for many years, who have been contributing members of our communities.
Unlawful presence in the United States will alone not be a basis for an immigration enforcement action but rather, we will allocate our efforts, we will allocate our resources on those individuals who present a current public safety threat, a threat to national security, or a threat to our border security, and that is a very important principle.
And we also want, with you, to champion our identity as a country. We want to champion our identity as a nation of immigrants: realize and harness and advance their contributions. That is who I think we are. And I, as an immigrant to this country, say that with tremendous pride and gratitude, not only to my parents, of course, but to the country that gave us this home and me the opportunity to join government service.
“Nation of immigrants” is leftist code for “keep the borders open,” but at any rate Mayorkas didn’t mention that illegal aliens, for all their “contributions,” cost taxpayers more than $130 billion annually. Nor did he discuss how much crime they commit. One of the Biden-Mayorkas DREAMers lied about his age to border agents, landed in Florida, and murdered a man, police allege.
Mayorkas also ignored the costs of importing 70,000 Afghan refugees after the disastrous U.S. pullout from the country.
That’s worked out as well as open borders. Almost as soon as they landed at U.S. military bases, the Afghans — many unvetted and unvaccinated — began committing crimes. Already, they’ve been arrested for rape, child sex absue, and domestic violence.
And Biden and Mayorkas aren’t finished. They hope to dump almost 100,000 Afghans into the heartland in the next year. Taxpayer bill: $67,000 … each.
Mayorkas didn’t mention that insignificant fact, either.
Not Incompetent
Tempting as it is to say Mayorkas is incompetent, Americans shouldn’t be fooled. He and his boss, Joe Biden, have opened the border purposely, imported illegals with the China Virus purposely, refused to deport dangerous criminals purposely, and maligned and undermined the border patrol purposely.
Even naturalization fraud — i.e., lying to get citizenship — won’t get one deported and is no longer an impediment to citizenship.
It suffices to say that Mayorkas won’t likely speak before the next meeting of the Western Sheriffs Association. In November, the group called on Biden to fire him.
Mayorkas’ main claim to fame before Biden picked him to run DHS was finagling visas for wealthy foreigners.
Hat tip: Breitbart
