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Homeland Security secretary tests positive for COVID-19

 Homeland Security   Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19, DHS said on Tuesday – just days after he attended an event with   President Biden . A DHS spokesperson said that contact tracing was underway after Mayorkas tested positive Tuesday morning as part of routine pre-travel protocols. "Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing only mild congestion; he is fully vaccinated and will isolate and work at home per CDC protocols and medical advice," DHS spokesperson Marsha Espinosa said.  The diagnosis comes after Mayorkas attended the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol alongside President Biden on Saturday. While it was not clear what sort of contact the two men had, Biden mentioned Mayorkas by name at the event. "To Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, thank you for being here and for the great job you’re doing for us," Biden said. "Thank you very, very much.  And it's a tough job." Addition...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responds to criticism of how the Biden administration handled the surge in Haitian migrants at the border.

  CNN host Jake Tapper hit critics who spread "patently false" rumors about the mounted  Border Patrol  agents on the  southern border  on Sunday's "State of the Union," some of whom were members of the Biden administration. When a now infamous image of a Border Patrol agent mounted on a horse appearing to be corral migrants with a rope made the rounds on social media last week, critics were quick to accuse the agents of "whipping" Haitian migrants trying to enter the country illegally. More context for the photo revealed, however, that the reins were only used to control their horses. Still, leading Democrats and members of the media pushed ahead with the original story and the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the matter. To some, it sounded as though members of the Biden administration had already made up their minds about the agents. "I promise you those people will pay,"  President Biden  said. "They wil...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas: "Our borders are not open.”

  With the burgeoning crisis under the so-called ‘migrant bridge’ in Del Rio, Texas, Biden’s DHS Secretary had the gall to claim today that “our borders are not open”: I am on the ground in Del Rio where I have received an operational briefing and witnessed first-hand the steps being taken to address the recent increase in migrant encounters.  I first want to thank the United States Border Patrol, led by Chief Raul Ortiz, a native of Del Rio, for responding to this challenging and heart-breaking situation.  I am grateful for the Chief’s extraordinary leadership.  I also want to welcome, of course, Commissioner Troy Miller, who's been leading the U.S. Customs and Border Protection since January 20 and has been doing an extraordinary job.  We are in the midst of a pandemic and a critical migration challenge.  We continue to exercise the Centers for Disease Control's Title 42 authority.  Title 42 is not an immigration authority...

"Any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant is unacceptable, is against border patrol policy, training and our department's values," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says after Border Patrol agents were seen using whip-like cord on migrants.

  Yesterday it was all the rage that the border patrol began using horses to bring order to the chaos on the border with the Haitian illegals. The media ran with the false accusation that the border patrol were whipping the illegals in order to contain them even though the border patrol didn’t have whips. As the Fraternal Order of Police said yesterday, these are simply reins used to control the horse which were NOT being used as whips: For all you Twitter warriors out there: these are NOT whips. And no, Border Patrol agents are NOT "whipping" people. They are REINS... Stay with us here, like a steering wheel is used to drive a car, the reins are used to “drive” the horse. Thanks for coming to our TED talk. pic.twitter.com/r0n2kXHqvy — National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) September 21, 2021 Well just like clockwork, Mayorkas came out today and claimed that all of this was horrible and that he would not tolerate it any longer: Mayorkas said he was "h...