The Homeland Security secretary touted the success of policy changes, though Republicans were quick to point to overall numbers of migrants entering at the southern border.
Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also downplayed the drop in encounters with migrants at the southern border after the Title 42 policy expired, saying he believes caravans of migrants are still headed to the border and “they still want to get in.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued over the Biden administration restrictions, which it says are inhumane and dangerous for asylum seekers. Mayorkas insisted that the administration has created more lawful pathways for entry into the United States, but he acknowledged that asylum seekers now have a “higher threshold of proof they have to meet.”“This is not an asylum ban,” Mayorkas said on “This Week.
The mayor of the border city of Laredo, Tex., told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that while officials are seeing historic challenges at the border, preparations made in anticipation of the expiration of the Title 42 policy have “held up.”“We have not been overwhelmed at this point,” said Mayor Victor Treviño, who added that the city received about 700 migrants Saturday but that it remains on “high alert” because of the overflow from the El Paso and Brownsville areas.
Rep. Ro Khanna , an outspoken liberal, told “Fox News Sunday” that the Biden administration was doing all it could at the border but was hamstrung by a shortage of resources that congressional Republicans refused to provide.
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