Quote Of The Day: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas

By News & Guts

The Biden administration announced on Monday it will offer separated migrant families “the option of being reunified either in the United States or their country of origin.” The announcement came from new DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who had a broader message about how the U.S. immigration system had been decimated by the Trump administration.

“To put it succinctly: the prior administration dismantled our nation’s immigration system in its entirety…Quite frankly, the entire system was gutted.” — Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

NEW: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas: "To put it succinctly: the prior administration dismantled our nation's immigration system in its entirety…Quite frankly, the entire system was gutted."https://t.co/WRueAuwXlG pic.twitter.com/MiQmKL5oeJ

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "We will dig out of the cruelty of the past administration and we will rebuild our nation's asylum system."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2021