Mayorkas says the action to limit the officials would have happened sooner if it were not for 'useless politics'.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted “in hindsight” that steps should have been taken to combat the “useless politics” that killed bilateral border talks.

CBS 'Face the Nation' host Margaret Brennan pressed Mayorkas on Sunday about why President Biden waited until just five months before the election to finally issue orders to stop the flow of people at the border.

Mayorkas insisted that the administration force Congress to act on the border, continuing to blame politics for blocking the passage of border funding.

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“Remember where we were when the president took office,” said Mayorkas. “We were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous administration had put in place Title 42, which is a public health mandate, and we were able to deport people, so we could continue to deport people at the border like the previous administration did. There was a lot of pressure to keep Title 42 in place, which we did until May of 2023.

He continued, “Then we turned to Congress, asking for much-needed funding to make our administration of a broken immigration system work even better. We were denied. We went back to Congress a second time and asked for funding. It was denied. Then we turned to bipartisan negotiations, which were successful, then ended in a really bad deal.” .

A bipartisan border bill failed to advance in the Senate earlier this year. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

“Bipartisan negotiations” refers to the Senate border bill negotiated by Republican Sen. James Lankford, Okla., and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, Conn., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Ariz. Although the White House has largely blamed Republicans for the obstruction. Bill on passage, the bill failed to advance in the Senate by a 43-50 vote with bipartisan opposition.

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“Looking back now, in 2020, if we had known that careless politics would have killed what was clearly an admirable effort with a positive outcome, we would probably have taken immediate administrative action,” said Maorkas.

Mayorkas testified that the border is secure even though they violated the records. (AP/Mark Schifelbein)

As recently as April 2023, Mayorkas insisted that the border is “secure,” despite record numbers of border crossings during the Biden administration. This was a claim he repeated even as he faced mockery and ridicule from Republicans.

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