The southern border continues to burn.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is more worried about what his agency is calling illegal migrants than stopping them from pouring into the country. In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week, Mayorkas shared that he’s cracked down on the term “illegal alien” in his agency.
“In the Department of Homeland Security I issued a memo very early on that we would not use the term ‘illegal alien.’ When speaking of these individuals we use the term ‘non-citizen,’ and that speaks to the importance of respecting the dignity of the individual,” Mayorkas remarked.
From The Daily Wire:
Mayorkas’ refusal to use the term “illegal alien” comes as illegal immigration has spiked under the Biden administration, with an estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrant gotaways being recorded since Biden took office in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.
Border Patrol has also reported a 1,000% increase in illegal immigration from numerous different countries from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023, including China, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, among others.
While illegal crossings into the United States have spiked, endangeringAmerican citizens living on the border, the Biden administration has also promoted the CBP One app, a digital platform that allows foreign nationals to remotely schedule meetings for asylum claims. Just under 80,000 foreign nationals entered the United States between January and April by using the app.
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— Daily Wire News (@DailyWireNews) July 21, 2023
