Mayorkas states immigration disaster not unique to US: 'Reflective of the economic downturn' and 'climate change'

Homeland Protection Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas mentioned Sunday that the immigration disaster at the southern border is not exceptional to the U.S., and that southern countries are also looking at a huge influx of migrants due to the world financial downturn and local weather alter.

During an appearance on ABC’s "This Week," Mayorkas was asked by anchor Martha Raddatz no matter if the Biden’s administration’s insurance policies have been operating at the U.S.-Mexico border, in which Border Patrol brokers are reporting a report amount of apprehensions of immigrants trying to illegally cross into the U.S.

"I assume that we are accomplishing a great occupation. We need to have to do greater," Mayorkas responded. "We are concentrated on executing far more, and we are accomplishing it with our partners to the south."

Mayorkas claimed the disaster is a world one particular, and that populations are staying pushed northward in portion due to the flailing world wide financial system, the COVID-19 pandemic, and weather modify.

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies all through an April 2022 Home hearing. (G3 Box News Image/Jose Luis Magana)

"This is a phenomenon that not only the United States is going through – Colombia now has more than 2 million Venezuelans in its borders, Costa Rica has indicated that 2% of its inhabitants is Nicaraguan, and that may rise to 5%," he explained. 

"The migration that is transpiring all through the hemisphere is reflective of the economic downturn, enhance in violence in the course of the area, the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the final results of local climate change – we are actually in a regional problem, and we are addressing it with our regional associates," he added.

Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas frequented the U.S. southern border, Tuesday, May well 17, 2022. (Pool video)

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Mayorkas’ comments occur after the Department of Homeland Protection produced a report final week displaying Border Patrol agents processed migrants who illegally entered the place about 220,000 times in May well, setting an all-time record.

The dangers men and women are jeopardizing to get into the nation came into entire see past week after 53 migrants ended up killed in a tractor-trailer that had been abandoned in the sweltering warmth exterior San Antonio. At least four suspects have been arrested in connection with the scenario.

Individuals line up for a commercial bus that will take them to the San Antonio airport at a warehouse run by the Mission: Border Hope nonprofit group operate by the United Methodist Church in Eagle Go, Texas, Could 23, 2022. 

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Mayorkas mentioned Sunday that these deaths were being the "tragic final result" of legal human smuggling.

"We go on to warn folks not to acquire the perilous journey," he explained. "We are enforcing our laws."