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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

GOP prods Mayorkas over ‘ignorance’ of smuggling cartel tactics

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Border chaos rises, undercutting Mayorkas’ claims of progress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. asylum-seekers being returned by U.S. authorities under the so-called Remain in Mexico program are escorted by a Mexican migration agent as they walk back into Nuevo, Laredo Mexico, across the international bridge from Laredo, Texas, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The Biden administration has stopped taking appointments via its mobile phone app from asylum seekers in a notoriously dangerous and corrupt Mexican border city amid signs migrants who used it were being targeted for extortion. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez) **FILE**

Dem lawmakers rail against speedy asylum process, say illegal immigrants forced to recount trauma

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas arrives to testify before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

DHS secretary tells Congress he’s ‘not smiling’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about border security during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

House probe accuses Mayorkas of flouting 12 laws and court orders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, get a ride on a truck carrying rolls of steel rebar, in Irapuato, Mexico, Nov. 12, 2018, after a month on the road. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) **FILE**

DHS opens new pathway for Central American migrants to reach U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about border security during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Mayorkas faces impeachment probe; House GOP see violations, subversions of U.S. immigration laws

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walks across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. U.S. government data shows that 42% of all families encountered along the border in May hailed from places other than Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — the traditional drivers of migratory trends. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

DHS renews deportation amnesty for 350,000 migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz listens during a news conference, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. The head of the U.S. Border Patrol is stepping down following major changes at the U.S.-Mexico border that came with the end of Title 42 pandemic restrictions. Ortiz said in a note to staff Tuesday, May 30, obtained by The Associated Press, that he has decided to retire effective Friday, June 30. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Border Patrol chief to retire amid border chaos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A man jokes with a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he and other migrants wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Most migrants still caught and released into U.S. after Title 42

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about border security during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mayorkas says U.S. is ready for influx of migrants but acknowledges challenges

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Migrants waiting to apply for asylum between two border walls hold out phones in hopes of getting a charge Thursday, May 11, 2023, in San Diego. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

House passes border security bill as record wave of migrants streams in, Biden concedes to the chaos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants wait for U.S. authorities, between a barbed-wire barrier and the border fence at the US-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The U.S. on May 11 will begin denying asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through, according to a new rule released on May 10. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Biden’s last-minute border moves fail to quell rising discontent

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants cross the Rio Bravo into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The U.S. is preparing for the Thursday, May 11th end of the Title 42 policy, linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

U.S. to limit asylum at Mexico border, open 100 migration hubs as COVID-19 restrictions end

By Maria Verza and Colleen Long and Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Ukrainian refugees wait near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, April 4, 2022. A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, refugees started showing up to the U.S.-Mexico border. Roughly 1,000 Ukrainians a day flew to Tijuana on tourist visas, desperate to get into the country. The volume was overwhelming the nation’s busiest border crossing in San Diego. Just over the border in Tijuana Mexico, thousands of Ukrainians slept in a municipal gym hoping to for a chance to get across. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

How those fleeing Ukraine inspired U.S. border policies

By Colleen Long and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Migrants who recently crossed the border between the U.S. and Mexico are seen in Brownsville, Texas, Friday, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas)

Illegal immigration already surging even before end of Title 42

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the Rio Grande River in boats in Mission, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas) **FILE**

New border surge has already begun

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An officer escorts a man detained in an immigration and customs processing facility, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Carrot-and-stick: Feds announce plan to head off looming surge of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A U.S. government-built section of border wall snakes through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, separating Mexico, left, and the United States, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a &quot;We Build The Wall&quot; campaign to raise money for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Millions set aside for border wall headed for Mayorkas waste bin

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the FY2024 budget hearing for DHS Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

DHS’s Mayorkas orders 90-day ‘sprint’ review of U.S. vulnerabilities to China

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times