EXCLUSIVE — Sen. (R-TN) disputed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's claim that his department is prepared to take on the border following the end of Title 42. READ:
On Sunday, Mayorkas told CNN's Dana Bash,"We have been planning for months and months — over a year and a half. We have surged resources, asylum officers, Border Patrol agents, processing coordinators to do the data entry work so our Border Patrol agents can be out in the field. We've expanded our holding capacity."Blackburn wasn't convinced, however."It is obvious that the Department of Homeland Security is not prepared for what is happening at the border.
Blackburn explained,"When you look at the numbers of people, 6,000 people a day — on track to have 2.5 million migrants coming across this border this year. And that is those that are apprehended. Think about the gotaways." Blackburn further emphasized,"This administration was not prepared for this. They do not have a plan of how they're going to handle it. But they're turning every town into a border town and every state into a border state."
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