Mayorkas Responds to Growing Public Support for Mass Deportation of Illegal Immigrants

A recent CBS / YouGov poll showing that 62 percent of U.S. voters support a new national program to deport all illegal immigrants from the United States.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security in the Rayburn House Office Building in Capitol, Washington, on April 10, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a poll showing growing support for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants by saying the Biden administration holds in high esteem the value of keeping families together, regardless of immigration status, while recalling President Joe Biden’s words that America is proudly a “nation of immigrants.”