Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave probably the most revealing interview of his profession not too long ago, offering an interesting look contained in the thoughts of the anti-borders ideologue operating the company charged with defending America’s borders.
Whereas Mayorkas and different main Biden Administration officers typically wish to disassemble and deflect from their actual views on immigration points, generally they let the masks slip, and that’s precisely what Mayorkas did throughout an interview on the Texas Tribune Pageant earlier this month.
Throughout the interview, Mayorkas smeared his critics as bigots, articulated his opposition to deporting unlawful aliens, and even went so far as to counsel that Individuals who assist stronger border safety measures are themselves threats to nationwide safety. All through the remarkably candid interview, Mayorkas articulated the passions and frustrations of the anti-borders motion, and articulated his worldview in a approach that he hardly ever has earlier than.
“The divisiveness in our nation’s political life is stopping progress that our nation desperately wants, and that’s not solely with respect to immigration,” Mayorkas stated at one level.
Right here, Mayorkas appears peeved that Individuals won’t merely shut up and settle for his venture to remake America. In no space of public coverage has the Biden Administration taken extra warmth than on immigration, and for good motive. Greater than 10 million unlawful aliens have crossed the southern border since Joe Biden took workplace, resulting in human tragedies and financial hardships for Americans.
Mayorkas is so out of contact that he anticipated Individuals to take the upheaval of their communities with out criticism. Because the chief architect of the Biden Administration’s pro-illegal immigration agenda, the secretary is now seething in regards to the blowback his insurance policies have obtained. When Mayorkas complains in regards to the lack of “progress” on the immigration subject, he’s expressing frustration that pushback from the American folks has upset his skill to totally implement his harmful agenda.
At one other level through the interview, Mayorkas reiterated a vicious, however commonly-used smear in opposition to his critics, portray these against lawless mass immigration as racists and bigots.
“It isn’t the primary time in historical past that some parts of a society have pointed to migrants as a supply of social ills for which they aren’t accountable. That could be a phenomenon that isn’t distinctive to the USA, traditionally and proper now,” Mayorkas stated.
For years, anti-borders activists have in contrast immigration enforcement motion to a few of historical past’s worst atrocities, and in contrast public servants who implement immigration legislation to a few of historical past’s best villains. Whereas Mayorkas didn’t explicitly make this comparability, it’s clear he was doing so implicitly. He views the deportation of unlawful aliens–a needed continuing for any nation that needs to maintain itself–as evil, and this has been mirrored in his insurance policies. Months after taking workplace, DHS launched new pointers, basically saying to the world that unlawful aliens not deemed as public security or nationwide safety threats could be allowed to remain within the nation.
Being within the nation illegally must be sufficient by itself to benefit deportation. Inviting overseas nationals to not simply enter the nation illegally, however permitting them to remain right here indefinitely so long as they don’t commit a heinous crime is an assault on the rule of legislation, however Mayorkas smears anybody who factors this out as evil and bigoted.
Not content material with smearing his critics as bigots, Mayorkas additionally attacked them as threats to U.S. nationwide safety.
Accusing his opponents of being threats to nationwide safety is particularly wealthy, contemplating no person has completed extra to place U.S. nationwide safety in danger than the secretary himself. Due to Mayorkas’s insurance policies, a file variety of suspected terrorists have entered the U.S. illegally lately, and safety specialists have warned that the wide-open U.S. border has put the nation susceptible to one other 9/11-style terrorist assaults.
However, the irony of Mayorkas’s feedback disguises their threatening nature. He genuinely views his critics as nationwide safety threats, and as head of DHS has the ability to weaponize the powers of the federal authorities in opposition to them. In any case, this is identical man who commissioned a “Disinformation Governance Board” meant to censor political opponents of the Biden Administration’s, earlier than public outcry led to the Board’s demise. Mayorkas is harmful, not simply due to his anti-borders worldview, however due to his authoritarian inclinations.
The Mayorkas doctrine is one which welcomes potential terrorists and criminals to illegally cross the U.S. border whereas viewing law-abiding Individuals because the nation’s actual threats. America’s most harmful bureaucrat could have only a few months left in workplace, however he seems decided to make use of them to impose his deranged worldview on our establishments to the best extent doable.
Dale L. Wilcox is govt director and normal counsel for the Immigration Reform Legislation Institute, a public curiosity legislation agency working to defend the rights and pursuits of the American folks from the adverse results of mass migration.
