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Late last month, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandrojandro Mayorkus, was in El Paso, Texas for a U.S. Border Patrol

Memorial Ceremony and for what DHS calls an information gathering expedition.

While there, he told CBS News something

that Democrats almost never say

about the US's asylum system.

The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system. That does not

speak to everyone whom we encounter, but there is an element of it and we deal with

it accordingly.

Just days later, President Joe Biden announced a new executive order that would quote,

bar migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum when the southern

border is overwhelmed.

We must face the simple truth to protect America as a land that welcomes immigrants. We must first secure the border and

secure it now. Yes, it's an election year and Biden needs a border policy win.

Also true, the US asylum system has been overwhelmed by migrant crossings in the past several months.

And also true, congressional Republicans, despite their consistent calls that migrants are gaming the US asylum

system, under the guidance from Donald Trump, they twice scuttled a bipartisan immigration reform

package that would have increased the processing capacity of US immigration. an immigration

courts. But let's just take this tiny moment,

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