“Because our border is not open,” Majorcas told CNN’s Dana Bash in The State of the Union. “What is happening now is that people are either being expelled under Title 42 or placed in an immigration enforcement procedure. And they are removed if they do not have a valid request under our law to stay. ”
“So, just to be clear, if someone is watching this from another country, they are considering coming. Is that your message? ”Bash asked.
“Don’t come,” said the secretary.
Majorca said a record 18,000 migrants would meet at the US-Mexico border every day – a potential scenario proposed by DHS – it would burden the system. DHS is preparing for a number of scenarios when the Trump-era pandemic limit, known as Title 42, falls on the US-Mexico border. The body used at the start of the coronavirus pandemic has allowed border guards to reject migrants at the US-Mexico border due to the public health crisis.
The secretary claims that the Biden administration is actively preparing for the abolition of this power. “What we are doing is preparing and planning, and we have been doing it for months,” he said on Sunday. “It’s our responsibility to be prepared for different scenarios and that’s what we do.”
Asked about Democratic lawmakers who say the ministry is not prepared for an increase in migrants at the border, Majorca said: “I respectfully disagree.” He stressed that preparations are under way and cited a 20-page memorandum published last week detailing the plans.
“We know where they are”
Mayorkas also confirmed on Sunday that 42 people who were in the terrorist screening database had been met at the US-Mexico border, telling Fox that the administration had “a hand in the matter”.
Ohio’s Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, angered Majorca last week over people met at the southern border who were on the terrorist watch list, accusing the secretary of not knowing where he was. find. Mallorca provided more information during an interview with Fox, saying he did not want to “speak incorrectly” in response to Jordan’s question.
“We know the whereabouts of these 42 people in the TSDB, the terrorist screening database,” he said.
“Let me share with you what is happening: they can be removed, they can be remanded in custody, they can cooperate in law enforcement investigations, and I do not intend to make this information public if it is law enforcement … sensitive. But we know where those 42 are and I didn’t want to talk about the location of each of them. “
Asked if Americans should be worried, Majorca said, “We’re dealing with this,” referring to the entire U.S. law enforcement and intelligence company, including the FBI.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story mistranslated a quote from Interior Minister Alejandro Mallorca.
CNN’s Donald Judd and Devan Cole contributed to this report.
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