For the last time, there are no children in cages at the border. They're just kids locked in containers with bars on the windows. It's different.
Sounds absurd, right? This is the logic the Biden administration is expecting you to swallow now that they're in charge.
If there's no crisis at the border, why is the DHS in such a hurry to build detainment facilities for kids? Why are people still being trafficked? Why is cartel violence still a rampant daily occurrence?
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday urged migrants thinking of coming to the United States to "wait" as the Biden administration rebuilds a "gutted" immigration system -- as he claimed there is no crisis at the U.S. southern border.
When asked during a press briefing at the White House about whether there is a "crisis" at the border, amid a surge of unaccompanied child migrants, Mayorkas said "no."
"The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border—that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is," Mayorkas said, adding that the "challenge" is not just for the government, but for non-governmental organizations and border communities.
"All understand it is imperative," he said. "Everyone understand what occurred before us and what we need to do now."
He added: "And we are getting it done."
Appearing in the White House briefing room, Mayorkas also took aim at the prior administration -- and said the Department of Homeland Security is working to "replace the cruelty" of the Trump administration with "an orderly humane and safe immigration process."
"It is hard and it will take time, but rest assured, we are going to get it done," Mayorkas said, while adding that it is "important to understand what we have inherited, because it defines the situation of how it currently stands."
"The prior administration dismantled our immigration system in its entirety," Mayorkas said. "Quite frankly, the entire system was gutted."
Mayorkas claimed that under the previous administration, "no planning had been done to protect frontline personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection" among others, including "individuals coming to our border."
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