Mayorkas Is Touting Border Encounters Several Times what Obama Admin. Considered a Crisis

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Live,” Fox News Contributor and former performing ICE Director Thomas Homan reacted to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defending the Biden administration’s strategy on the border whereas he was testifying earlier than Congress earlier within the week by declaring that the variety of encounters on the border in June was a number of instances what the Obama administration — which Mayorkas served as Homeland Security Deputy Secretary throughout — thought of a disaster.

Homan stated, [relevant remarks begin around 3:20] “Mayorkas, when he was Deputy Secretary under Obama, when we had a thousand illegal entries a day, Secretary Jeh Johnson called us all in and would say, what the hell is going on? We’ve got a thousand illegal entries. What are we doing about it? It’s a crisis. Now, we’ve got three to four times as many of that. Now, the Deputy Secretary, who is now the Secretary says, this is a success story.”

President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has stated that when he ran DHS, if there have been greater than 1,000 border apprehensions in a day, that was thought of a dangerous quantity and that “I know that a thousand overwhelms the system.” According to Border Patrol’s monthly numbers for June, there have been a mean of about 3,300 encounters between ports of entry per day, with the full variety of encounters averaging about 4,820 per day.