Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers on Wednesday that the surge of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border is not a “crisis,” saying that the Biden administration is “working around the clock” to deal with it.
GOP lawmakers and some Democrats have termed the surge a “crisis,” which has not been adopted by senior White House administration officials or top Democrats in Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats have blamed each other for exacerbating the crisis—as the GOP pointed to President Joe Biden’s moves starting in January to rescind a number of former President Donald Trump’s immigration orders, while Democrats said Trump’s orders were what led to the situation.
