News Analysis
During a recent hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) asked Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas, “Do you continue to maintain that the border is secure?” Mayorkas replied, “Yes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security.”
Contradicting that claim, objective measures show that the border is less secure than ever, and the situation is putting many thousands of lives at risk.
‘Got Aways’
Federal law requires the Department of Homeland Security to report specific “metrics” to “measure the effectiveness” of border security. One of the most telling of these is “got aways,” or illegal border crossers who the U.S. Border Patrol detects but does not catch. In other words, these are people who evade border security by luck or shrewdness….