Mayorkas Acknowledges that Migrants Attempt to Manipulate the System

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently stated that some migrants arriving at the southern US border are trying to “game” the U.S. asylum system.

“The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system,” Mayorkas told CBS News during an interview in El Paso, Texas. “That does not apply to everyone we encounter, but there is an element of it, and we handle it accordingly.”

He also mentioned the bipartisan border security bill he helped negotiate in the Senate, which has twice failed to progress in the legislature, stating that it “would have provided us with more tools to deal with those individuals attempting to game the system.”

Mayorkas dismissed claims that the Biden administration’s policies are encouraging immigration to the United States, labeling them as “false.”

“The reasons why people leave their countries of origin are well-known to us – extreme poverty, violence, severe weather events, corruption, suppression by authoritarian regimes, and more,” Mayorkas explained.