In December, U.S. Border Patrol reportedly encountered more than 300,000 migrants crossing the Southern border, with more than 11,000 in a single day.
While that number is down to about 3,200 per day over the past week, the situation remains critical.
“We are dealing with fundamentally a broken immigration system and one that has been in dire need of repair for more than three decades,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, during a visit Monday to the southern border town of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Migrants walk along the highway through Arriaga, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Meeting with border agents and local administrators, Mayorkas touted his record managing the migrant crisis.
“We have established Safe Mobility offices to assist migrants in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Ecuador. Implemented processes to enable different nationalities to access relief in the United States without making the perilous journey in the hands of smugglers. Begun processing a historic number of refugees from our hemisphere,” the secretary said.
But Republicans say he’s not enforcing federal laws that are already on the books, sitting on the sidelines as migrants have surged
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