Both Biden and Kamala have repeatedly played down or outright lied about the massive crisis at the border, but DHS Secretary Mayorkas is now caught on leaked video telling border patrol agents that the current border situation “cannot continue” and that he’s well aware that with the historic influx of illegals, the border is very close to ‘breaking’:
FOX NEWS – Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met privately with Border Patrol agents in Texas and said in leaked audio that the border crisis is “unsustainable” and “we’re going to lose” if “borders are the first line of defense.”
“A couple of days ago I was down in Mexico, and I said look, you know, if, if our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose and this is unsustainable,” Mayorkas said Thursday, according to the audio obtained by Fox News’ Bill Melugin through a Border Patrol source. “We can’t continue like this, our people in the field cant continue and our system isn’t built for it.”
Mayorkas told the agents that the current border situation “cannot continue.” He said the federal government’s system was not designed to handle such an influx of migrants as the U.S. has seen in recent months and he was “very well” aware that the sector recently came close to “breaking.”
“It’s our responsibility to make sure that that never happens again,” he said.
Mayorkas visited the Texas border and announced that agents handled more than 212,000 migrant encounters in July, marking a 13% increase from the previous month. He admitted the issue was “one of the toughest challenges we face.”
“The extent of the challenge should not be understated, but nor should our ability to meet it,” he said.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment if the border is not currently “breaking” in light of the July increase in migrant encounters.
Border agents told Mayorkas they know exactly how to deal with this situation, which is to make illegal entry into our country ILLEGAL AGAIN:
Some border agents have also seemed exasperated by the administration’s approach to the crisis.
“For those of us who have been around here long enough … we don’t need to reinvent the wheel,” one agent told Mayorkas. “We’ve had this happen before. We know exactly how to shut it down. We need to make illegal entry illegal.”
That’s how Trump dealt with it and they are exactly right to point that out. But Mayorkas and Biden would never do that, and I’m sure Mayorkas’ words didn’t amount to a hill of beans to many of these officers who see this administration as refusing to do what is necessary to protect Americans in this country.
I wish I had the actual audio of this but unfortunately Fox News didn’t provide it, nor did Melugin post it on his Twitter account. I suspect they are trying to protect the agent who recorded it and leaked it.
UPDATE: Here’s most of the audio from Fox News: