Mayorkas, Struggling With Border Surge, Spent $72M to Stop Trump Wall
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on April 27, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)
By Solange Reyner | Wednesday, 27 April 2022 04:17 PM
Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday defended the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis and said DHS has spent $72 million in costs to shut down construction of former President Donald Trump’s border wall.
“We inherited a broken and dismantled system that is already under strain,” Mayorkas said during a hearing before the House Appropriations DHS Subcommittee hearing Wednesday. “It was not built to manage the current levels of migration flow.”
“Only Congress can fix it,” he insisted.
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