DHS officials described a 'rough' January meeting between Border Patrol agents and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to new email provided to Fox News.
"The job has not gotten any easier over the last few months, and it was very, very difficult throughout 2021," Mayorkas told the agents."I know apprehending families and kids is not what you signed up to do. And now we got a composition that is changing even more with Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and the like, it just gets more difficult,"
"I know the policies of this administration are not particularly popular with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but that's the reality, and let's see what we can do within that framework," Mayorkas added.The emails show how officials flagged that Mayorkas had mentioned that the administration was expanding Title 42 to an additional three countries that at that time hadn’t been made public.
It also shows officials circulating and tweaking draft statements as requests for comment on the Townhall piece came in from both Reuters andOn Wednesday, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the exchange"shows the tremendous respect the DHS staff have for the dedicated workforce at CBP, that the Secretary invited candor and a frank discussion with Border Patrol Agents, and that he listened to them.
"That was the point of the trip, to meet and hear directly from the workforce," the spokesperson said."The Secretary has gone to the border over a dozen times and based on feedback from the workforce has taken steps such as deploying hundreds of Border Patrol Processing Coordinators to get more Agents back on the line, and supported a greater emphasis on prosecutions of those who assault Agents.
There were more than 2.3 million migrant encounters in Fiscal Year 2022, and more than 227,000 in September alone. That 2.3 million is an increase over the more than 1.7 million encountered in FY 2021.
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