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Sunday, May 3, 2026

Biden and Mayorkas's Dishonest Border Security Shell Game - Heritage.org

Key Takeaways

Mayorkas’s new policy further streamlines immigrants' ability to file fraudulent asylum claims and expands DHS’s catch-and-release efforts.

Biden and Mayorkas have essentially legalized illegal immigration by making it easier for hundreds of thousands of people to file illegitimate claims.

Ending the Biden border crisis means not just securing the border but reducing illegal immigration by removing incentives to enter the U.S. improperly.

If something is too good to be true, it probably is. Take Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s response to the worst self-inflicted border security crisis in our lifetime.

The Department of Homeland Security recently put out a self-congratulatory press release announcing that illegal border crossings "plummeted" in January. The release didn’t tell the public how this was accomplished: through a perverse application and violation of the law. The creation of their online system "CBP One" doesn’t address the crisis. It masks it by hiding under a false sense of legality. Rather than enforce the law, deal with those who violate it, and insert integrity back into the system by ending "catch and release," Mayorkas’s new policy further streamlines immigrants' ability to file fraudulent asylum claims and expands DHS’s catch-and-release efforts.

Yes, fewer illegal border crossings between the ports of entry are a good thing. But at what cost? Is it OK to sacrifice the rule of law by encouraging millions of fraudulent...



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