Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, who’s facing looming impeachment hearings in Congress related to the border crisis, said Thursday that over 70 percent of illegal immigrants are being released into U.S. communities after an initial arrest.
Mr. Mayorkas made the remarks in a Jan. 4 broadcast of Fox News’ “Special Report,” in which he was asked by the host to provide an estimate of the number of illegal immigrants who have been released into the country since President Joe Biden took office.
The DHS chief replied that it’s “well more than a million a year” while blaming an immigration system that needs fixing because it’s “so fundamentally broken.”…
