It is rather amazing that Secretary Mayorkas is incapable of admitting there is a crisis at the border.
Mayorkas was doing the rounds this weekend on the media circuit.
He sat down with Poppy Harlow on CNN, but he could just not get himself to say the “c” word.
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Harlow flat-out asked Mayorkas if we have a crisis at the border.
Mayorkas stated, “You know, we — we have seen the situation at the border managed in an orderly way. We have seen it in extraordinary challenging circumstances as well.
“You can rest assured, Poppy, that we’re doing everything that we possibly can to build a system that provides humanitarian relief in a safe and orderly way, while trying to persuade Congress to fix what is a broken system.”
Harlow hit him back, stating, “I understand that. But just what you’re seeing, what you’ve seen the 20 times you’ve been there, the record number of migrants at the southern border, and last year it was nearly 2.4 million, if that’s not a crisis, Secretary, what is?”
Mayorkas went full DJ, spinning away, stating, “You know, Poppy, we have seen 2.4 million encounters at our southern border, and it is reflective of the greatest level of displacement of people in the world since World War II. It is reflective of a migration challenge that is gripping the entire hemisphere.
“When I was in Colombia, I spoke with the president of the country, the foreign minister, the minister of security, and they spoke of 2.4 million Venezuelans in Columbia now.”
These are border numbers this country has never seen before, EVER, with four and five times the number, more actually, than we saw under the previous administration, and Mayorkas says the system was broke before and this is normal for the times.
Spin, spin, spin… it is all they offer.
