In the early days of Joe Biden’s first term, a peculiar problem came about: our new Democratic President, who long believed that Donald Trump was doing the nation a great disservice on the subject of immigration, was being completely inundated by a humanitarian crisis occurring at our southern border.
Biden quickly assigned Vice President Kamala Harris to handle the issue, but Harris has instead decided to go traipsing around the country, even having the cheekiness to stop and eat cake in Chicago.
Now, as the situation remains tumultuous, one border Sheriff is calling the administration out on their rather sizable broken promises.
Mark Dannels, the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, said on Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not keeping his promise to meet weekly with law enforcement who are dealing with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
One week after making the promise, no meeting had been set up, Dannels told Fox News, adding that whether Mayorkas will support him and others will be the “true test” of his willingness to deal with the crisis:
As previously reported by Fox News, Mayorkas met with sheriffs in El Paso, Texas, about the situation at the U.S. border last Thursday, during his third trip to the border since taking on his role in the administration. At the time, Dannels asked for weekly meetings with Mayorkas, which he told Fox News was agreed to.
He did not mince his words.
“Currently we asked [to meet with the Secretary] for once a week, whether that’s through zoom, conference calling, in-person, or whatever needs to happen based on where we’re at today with the border,” Dannels said. “So that’s in the process of being set up and hopefully this will now turn into action for the good of the people.”
Dannels said everyone present agreed that the sheriffs need to work more closely with DHS to build on “shared missions.”
Biden has characterized the crisis on the border as a routine, “seasonal” surge – a notion that has been thoroughly rebuked by the data and by the testimony of those on the ground.
