Mayorkas: ‘If We’d Known that Irresponsible Politics Would’ve Killed a Meritorious Effort ... Perhaps We Would’ve Taken Executive Action More Rapidly’

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MAYORKAS: "There was tremendous pressure to maintain the workings of Title 42, which we did. That held until May of 2023. We then turned to Congress, and we asked for supplemental funding that was desperately needed to make our administration of a broken immigration system work much better. We were denied. We went back to Congress a second time and requested supplemental funding. Denied. We then turned to the bipartisan negotiations, which proved successful, which were then killed. The result of it, a really terrific solution was killed by irresponsible politics. Looking back now in hindsight, in 2020, if we had known that irresponsible politics would have killed what was clearly a meritorious effort and a meritorious result, perhaps we would have taken executive action more rapidly."