Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has defended President Joe Biden’s handling of the conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border despite criticism from Republicans. Speaking during a Senate hearing on May 13, Mayorkas touted the progress the administration has made to move unaccompanied migrant children out of crowded border stations, and noted that the number has dropped in recent months. Mayorkas said children were staying in border patrol stations for too long “because the prior administration failed to increase the Department of Health and Human Services’ capacity to receive the unaccompanied children from border patrol stations within the required timeframe.” He said the number of unaccompanied children in those stations went from 5,700 in late March to under 500 this week. “We managed the situation because of, quite simply, the selfless dedication, the heroism of the United States Border Patrol,” Mayorkas said. “I repeated then what I had said two weeks earlier, that we have a plan, that we are executing on …