Important Takeaways:
- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will visit the border region with a quick stop in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday — just two days before he is slated to appear for impeachment proceedings before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Mayorkas’ visit will include meetings with local officials, Customs and Border Protection staff members, and Border Patrol officials from the Del Rio Sector.
- The visit will not include an opportunity for the media to question Mayorkas, nor will it involve any events open to the public.
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘We’ve Had Enough,’ Says Texas Border Mayor on Mass Migration Disaster
- Eagle Pass, Texas, Mayor Rolando Salinas took to social media this weekend to express his frustration with the surge of migrants flooding into his small city. Describing the constant flow of migrants into the city as an immigration disaster, Salinas chided Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for visiting Uvalde, Texas — a city 60 miles away from the border region — but failing to visit one of the busiest migrant crossing spots in Eagle Pass during the visit.
- Salinas describes a group of 200 to 300 migrants being apprehended by the Border Patrol on Sunday evening near his home. Although thankful for the efforts of law enforcement officers in the city, he says the federal government has no plan to deal with the immigration crisis plaguing the city.
- The Border Patrol apprehended nearly 190,000 migrants entering the United States illegally at the southern border in November.
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