Mayorkas Defends Administration’s Preparations for End of Title 42 as GOP Pins Blame

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on May 14 said that the flood of illegal immigrants anticipated following the expiration of Title 42 on Thursday has not happened, and that the Biden administration has designed and put in place historic and effective immigration regulations.  
However, in the two days prior to Title 42 ending, U.S. border officials had already started reporting daily records of 10,000 encounters with illegal immigrants entering the United States each day. 
On ABC’s “This Week,” Mayorkas told host Jonathan Karl that following the large numbers of illegal immigrant encounters registered earlier in the week, and with Title 42 no longer in place, the flow of entries into the United States had dipped dramatically and was manageable. …}

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