DHS refused to look into alleged would-be Trump assassin flagged on his way back from Ukraine: Report



The U.S. Secret Service admitted this week to failing to search the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, just before President Donald Trump hit the links on Sunday.

When pressed on why the Secret Service failed to spot a Democratic donor — known to the FBI — who apparently had camped out at the course for 12 hours with an SKS-style 7.62x39 caliber rifle, acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe blamed the intended target, telling reporters that Trump "wasn't supposed to have gone there in the first place."

While the USSS is facing criticism over its latest bungling of Trump's security, its parent agency also appears to have dropped the ball.

Just the News reported that Trump critic Alejandro Mayorkas' Department of Homeland Security was prompted to investigate suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh upon his return home from Ukraine last year after U.S. border officials flagged him as suspect, but the agency didn't bother to act.

'Simply get all military gear and money.'

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reportedly interviewed Routh at the Honolulu airport in June 2023. Officials knew of his travels to Poland, specifically to Warsaw near the Ukrainian border, as well as to Istanbul, Turkey. They were also aware of his efforts to recruit mercenaries from Taiwan, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and Moldova to fight in Ukraine against the Russians.

Blaze News previously noted that Routh ran a website called "Fight for Ukraine," which details various ways — including unlawful ways — people could supposedly go to fight as mercenaries in Ukraine.

"Simply get all military gear and money and fly to Krakow[, Poland]. Take an intercity train or bus to Przemyśl. Take a local train or bus to Medyka. Make your way to the border with Ukraine," wrote Routh.

While Routh was keen on having civilians from across the globe put their lives on the line in Ukraine, he never fought himself, reported the New York Times, whose reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff first heard of Routh through a former Afghan special operations soldier in Iran.

Routh hatched a grand scheme to get militants fleeing the Taliban to go fight for Kiev. His X feed was littered with failed pleas to Western defense officials and organizations to allow such Afghan mercenaries into Ukraine.

Extra to attempting to recruit mercenaries, while in Ukraine, Routh also demonstrated in support of the Azov Brigade, an outfit associated with neo-Nazis since its inception.

The brigade said in a statement this week it "has no connection" to Routh and that rumors to the contrary are "playing along with Russian propaganda."

According the records reviewed by Just the News, Routh gave the border officials interviewing him a card stating that he was the director of a group called the "International Volunteer Center."

USA Today indicated Monday it tried calling a number associated with Routh and was greeted by a voicemail message identifying the number's owner as "Ryan in Hawaii," working with the "National Volunteer Center, sending soldiers to Ukraine, as well as Taiwan."

The International Volunteer Center in Ukraine made clear it hasn't worked with Routh, telling the New York Post, "We have been officially registered as an organization in Ukraine since October 2023. Prior to the recent developments, none of us had any knowledge of Mr. Routh or any other entity named the International Volunteer Center, aside from our own registered organization."

'There's one person you guys need to keep an eye on, because he's a ticking time bomb.'

Ukraine's foreign legion — which Routh frequently contacted — has characterized the suspected would-be assassin as a charlatan and denied his involvement in the unit.

According to CBP's memo pertaining to Routh's interview, "Subject is a USC who had traveled to Kiev, Ukraine for 3 months to help recruit Soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan, to fight in the Ukrainian war against Russia."

"Subject stated that he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work Subject provided his recruiting business card (cards have been uploaded into the event) which list his recruiting partners that he speaks with to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Romanian, Pakistan, Syria, and Israel," continues the memo reviewed by Just the News. "Subject stated that he obtains money from his wife to help fund his trips to Ukraine."

The memo further stated that Routh was referred to the DHS' Homeland Security Investigations but that HSI declined to look into the matter.

"HSI was contacted and refused the case," said the memo.

When pressed for comment, the DHS referred Just the News to the FBI, which is overseeing the investigation into the assassination attempt.

The DHS also apparently failed to take action in response to another concerning report submitted by Chelsea Walsh, a nurse from West Palm Beach who encountered Routh in Kiev in 2022.

Walsh was so worried about Routh's volatile nature and threats of violence that she reported him to a CBP officer at Washington's Dulles airport in June 2022 after returning from Ukraine.

Walsh told WPTV-TV, "As a nurse, we are trained to detect when people are a threat to themselves or others, and I was beginning to realize more and more that Ryan was a threat to others."

At the airport, “[the agent] said that he represented Homeland Security and he was only interested in homeland security threats," said Walsh.

"I told him, 'Then there's one person you guys need to keep an eye on, because he's a ticking time bomb. His name is Ryan Routh, and he lives in Hawaii. He's coming back from Ukraine eventually, and someone needs to follow up with him.'"

Walsh said the DHS never followed up with her.

The FBI — whose agent in charge of the Miami field office, Jeffrey Veltri, was reportedly compelled to scrub his social media history because of his anti-Trump rhetoric — also appears to have let Routh slip off its radar.

Blaze News previously reported that the FBI received a complaint in 2019 that Routh had a firearm. Owing to Routh's felonious record, including a 2002 conviction on a possession of a weapon of mass destruction charge, the complaint would ostensibly have been grounds for an interview at the very least.

Veltri said at a press conference Monday, "When following up on the tip, the alleged complainant was interviewed and did not verify, I repeat, did not verify providing the initial information. The FBI passed that information on to local law enforcement in Honolulu."

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Secret Service allegedly 'repeatedly denied' offer to use drones leading up to Trump assassination attempt



United States Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday presenting additional shocking whistleblower claims pertaining to the U.S. Secret Service's failed response to the recent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In the letter, Hawley noted that the gunman had used a drone to survey the area around the rally ahead of the event, a fact which was confirmed by FBI Director Christopher Wray yesterday during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

More than two hours before the attempted assassination, the shooter flew the drone for roughly 11 minutes, approximately 200 yards from the stage, Wray said.

"This raises an obvious question: why was the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not using its own drones?" Hawley asked Mayorkas.

Hawley stated that a whistleblower reported that the USSS "repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally."

"This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site," Hawley's letter continued. "Secret Service said no. The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, the USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack."

According to the whistleblower, Hawley noted, the drones offered by the law enforcement agency had the capability to identify active shooters and "help neutralize them."

"It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before [the] event," he wrote.

Hawley added that Mayorkas is expected to testify before lawmakers next week.

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Just days ago, Hawley sent a separate letter to Mayorkas demanding answers from the DHS regarding why law enforcement agents were not stationed on the roof of the building where the gunman took his shots. Hawley stated that an agent was assigned to be on the roof but that they "abandoned" their post "due to the hot weather."

On Thursday, Hawley plans to introduce legislation, the Trump Assassination Attempt Transparency Act, that would force the declassification of all information related to the incident.

"We can't let the federal government hide behind the 'classified' label," he told Fox News Digital.

On Wednesday, the House unanimously passed — in a 416-0 vote — a resolution to form a bipartisan task force that will investigate the assassination attempt.

The USSS deferred comment to the DHS.

The DHS told Blaze News, "DHS responds to congressional requests directly via official channels, and the Department will continue to respond appropriately to congressional oversight. We are committed to working with the appropriate and relevant investigations of what happened on July 13, including with Congress, the Inspector General, and both internal and independent reviews."

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NEW: Mayorkas Questioned by Reporters on Trump Assassination Attempt

NEW: Mayorkas Questioned by Reporters on Trump Assassination Attempt

Biden's DHS 'secret police' wanted you to rat out your neighbors?!



In a move straight out of communist East Germany, the Department of Homeland Security had recently planned to turn mothers and teachers into informants who rat out their neighbors for “domestic extremism.”

The group behind the move was called the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, which has since been disbanded. In notes released from a September 2023 meeting, they discussed ways to collect information on Americans and “get into local communities in a non-threatening way.”

“As we told you after the passing of the Patriot Act, be careful, because terrorism can be ‘one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist,’” Glenn Beck warns.

American First Legal alleged in a lawsuit filed in November 2023 that the group was stacked with Democratic partisans and violated the federal advisory committee act due to its lack of balance.

As part of an out-of-court settlement, the group agreed to disband and provide American First Legal with its internal records.

While Glenn is thankful that American First Legal took action, he isn’t convinced the group has truly been stopped.

“I just want you to know, they don’t stop these things. They rename them. They break them up, and they do them in other ways,” Glenn explains.

“You can’t say you are a lover of our democracy, and you’re trying to save democracy, and put a secret council together that is encouraging people to look at political dissent and report on those people so the government can do something,” he adds.

Members of the group had noted that “Americans have an ambivalent feeling of telling on each other” and cited the “failure” of “see something say something.”

“We’re not ambivalent about that. We don’t want to do that. If I see somebody that is breaking the law and I think they’re doing something that looks like it might be terroristic in nature, yeah, I will call the police,” Glenn says, adding, “but I’m not snooping and spying on my neighbors.”


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Biden DHS' flight scheme landed over 160,000 'inadmissible aliens' in Florida inside an 8-month window



The Biden administration is quietly loading Florida up with foreign nationals who have no business being in the country by way of the Department of Homeland Security's controversial Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) mass-parole program.

This apparent illegal-immigration workaround, which Republicans have called "unlawful," could prove impactful for the Sunshine State as well as for the rest of the country. After all, the DHS' imports are likely to put additional stress on citizen resources in Florida, such as hospitals, which a recent report indicates were put out $566 million last year on account of illegal aliens.

Background

The Biden DHS launched the CHNV parole program in late 2022 in an apparent effort to both spare prospective illegal aliens from having to jump the border and to lower the Biden administration's egregious border-jumper statistics.

The DHS announced in January 2023 that prospective CHNV migrants "who have a supporter in the United States, undergo and clear robust security vetting, and meet other eligibility criteria" can apply for advance authorization to fly to an interior port of entry in the United States.The program grants up to a two-year parole for up to 30,000 CHNV nationals per month.

A U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas noted in March that by June 2023, the DHS had approved 97.5% of the applications for CHNV nationals.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicated that as of March, "404,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans arrived lawfully on commercial flights and were granted parole under these processes. Specifically, 86,000 Cubans, 168,000 Haitians, 77,000 Nicaraguans, 102,000 Venezuelans were vetted and authorized for travel; and 84,000 Cubans, 154,000 Haitians, 69,000 Nicaraguans, and 95,000 Venezuelans arrived lawfully and were granted parole."

Upon the implementation of the program, 21 states filed suit, claiming that the program exceeds the authority of the DHS and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas; failed to include a notice and comment period; and is arbitrary and capricious.

The states' complaint suggested the DHS has "effectively created a new visa program — without the formalities of legislation from Congress."

"The parole program established by the Department fails each of the law's three limiting factors. It is not case-by-case, is not for urgent humanitarian reasons, and advances no significant public benefit," continued the complaint. "The Department does not have the authority to invite more than a third of a million more illegal aliens into the United States annually as it has announced with this program."

Texas also argued that the CHNV program was also harmful because migrants approved under the scheme qualify for state services such as health care and public education, reported the Texas Tribune.

U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton ruled in favor of the Biden administration on March 8, enabling the scheme to keep going.

Damning figures

On Tuesday, House Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee revealed some troubling details about the Biden Department of Homeland Security's CHNV scheme.

According to the internal data the committee obtained via subpoena, 1.6 million inadmissible aliens were awaiting travel authorizations through the CHNV program as of October 2023. If accepted by the DHS, as most are, then they would join more than 400,000 others, including the roughly 200,000 migrants flown into the U.S. then processed by the DHS under the program between January and August — the bulk of whom ended up in Florida.

The committee indicated during that 8-month window, 91,821 migrants flew into Miami, Florida; 60,461 flew into Ft. Lauderdale; 6,043 flew into Orlando; and 3,237 flew into Tampa under the program.

The top 15 airport locations used for the CHNV program also included New York City, which received 14,827 between January and August 2023; Houston, 7,923; Los Angeles, 3,237; Dallas, 2,256; San Francisco, 2,052; Atlanta, 1,796; and Washington, D.C., which received 1,472.

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The internal DHS documents apparently indicate that none of the migrants have a legal basis to enter the U.S., explicitly stating, "All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV Processes."

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the committee, said in a statement, "These documents expose the egregious lengths Secretary Mayorkas will go to ensure inadmissible aliens reach every corner of the country, from Orlando and Atlanta to Las Vegas and San Francisco. Secretary Mayorkas' CHNV parole program is an unlawful sleight of hand used to hide the worsening border crisis from the American people."

"Implementing a program that allows otherwise inadmissible aliens to fly directly into the U.S. — not for significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons as the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates — has been proven an impeachable offense," added Green.

Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), told Fox News in a statement, "Biden's parole program is unlawful, and constitutes an abuse of constitutional authority. Florida is currently suing Biden to shut it down, and we believe that we will prevail."

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43 Republican senators sign letter to Schumer, pressing for Senate to hold Mayorkas impeachment trial



The bulk of the Senate GOP conference has joined a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that calls for the chamber to hold a trial regarding the articles of impeachment the House lodged against Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas back in February.

According to reports, a spokesperson for House Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that "the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week."

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Forty-three GOP senators signed onto the letter, which describes the nation's southern border as "a national security disaster."

"We write to demand that the Senate uphold its constitutional responsibility to properly adjudicate the House of Representatives' impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas," the letter declares. "Since 1797, twenty-one individuals have been impeached by the House of Representatives. Trials were held in every single instance, except once when an impeached judge resigned from office before trial commenced. Absent Secretary Mayorkas' immediate resignation, this impeachment should remain faithful to Senatorial precedent.

"In the face of the disaster that mounts daily at our southern border, and in communities across America, the House of Representatives has formally accused Alejandro Mayorkas of demeaning his office. The American people deserve to hear the evidence through a Senate trial in the Court of Impeachment," the letter states. "Therefore, we implore you to hold a trial, as has been done in every similar case in the Senate's 235 years of existence."

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Mexico allows millions of illegal aliens to flow northward but says it won't take deportees from Texas



It remains unclear whether the courts will ultimately permit the Lone Star State to assume some of the basic duties the Biden administration appears unwilling or at the very least incapable of doing — namely the enforcement of immigration law amid an unprecedented border crisis.

Regardless of how the battle over Texas' Senate Bill 4 pans out, Mexico underscored Tuesday that when it comes to the tens of millions of foreign nationals who have transited its lands in order to trespass into the U.S., there will be no take-backs.

Background

SB 4, ratified by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Dec. 18, was supposed to take effect this month. The law makes illegal entry into Texas a class B misdemeanor and allows for foreign nationals who refuse to leave the country to be charged with a second-degree felony, which carries prison time of up to 20 years.

Under SB 4, illegal aliens found in Texas "at any time" who have previously been convicted of two or more misdemeanors involving drugs, crimes against a person, or both, would be charged with a third-degree felony.

The law also grants local law enforcement officials with the ability to deport illegal aliens.

The Biden administration, which has overseen the unlawful entry of well over one million illegal aliens into the country since October, joined radical leftists groups and a foreign regime in condemning SB 4.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called SB 4 "an extreme law that will not and does not make the communities in Texas safer."

The Biden Department of Justice sued Texas "to enforce the supremacy of federal law" in early January. The following month, a Texas federal judge placed a preliminary injunction on SB 4, claiming Texas "is unlikely to succeed on the merits."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office immediately appealed the ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the ruling. This prompted the Biden administration to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the law.

The Supreme Court allowed SB 4 to go into effect Tuesday, but this proved to be short-lived. Hours later, the federal appeals court let the lower court's earlier injunction stand.

Mexico: Solely an exporter of illegal aliens

Amid this back-and-forth — which University of Texas Austin law professor Steve Vladeck told the Texas Tribune was "indefensibly chaotic" — Mexican authorities chimed in, indicating they would remain an exporter, not an importer, of illegal aliens.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Tuesday, claiming the Mexican regime "condemns the entry into force of SB4 in Texas, which aims to stop the flow of migrants by criminalizing them, promoting the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling that threaten the human rights of the migrant community."

Apparently, the ministry did not consider the possibility that migrant families could be reunited and live in Mexico.

The ministry further stated that the Mexican regime "categorically rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to exercise immigration control, detain and return nationals or foreigners to Mexican territory."

"Mexico will not accept, under any circumstances, repatriations by the State of Texas," claimed the ministry.

Intimating that the border crisis, which it has in many ways exacerbated, is America's alone to deal with, the ministry accused Texas of "generating hostile environments" for millions of residents of Mexican origin and subjecting them to "expressions of hatred, discrimination and racial profiling."

Mexico, which has received billions of dollars in direct U.S. foreign assistance in recent years, further indicated it will attempt to put its thumb on the scale with regards to the Texas case before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and "provide relevant information on the impact that this law will have on the Mexican and/or Mexican-American community, as well as its effect in U.S.-Mexico relations."

Mexico's top diplomat for North America reiterated the regime's rebuff of Texas' efforts to re-establish its sovereignty, writing, "Our country will not accept repatriations from the state of Texas. The dialogue on immigration matters will continue between the federal governments of [Mexico] and [the U.S.]."

In addition to pushing back against Texas' desperate effort to tackle a fatal and costly problem, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants the Biden administration to give legal status to at least five million illegal aliens in the U.S., reported the New York Times.

Obrador also has blasted proposals to build a wall along the southern border as "electoral propaganda."

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SCOTUS temporarily blocks Texas immigration bill. Here’s what COULD happen after the final ruling on March 13.



Just as Texas reached its limit with Biden’s open border policies and proposed Texas Senate Bill 4, which would allow the state to arrest illegal immigrants, the Supreme Court stepped in and halted progression.

Now, Texas once again has its hands tied with the invasion at the border — at least until March 13, when SCOTUS will make a final ruling.

“We can't enforce our laws; we can't keep our border sovereign,” sighs Sara Gonzales.

To make matters worse, “We're finding out there was a FOIA lawsuit from the Center of Immigration Studies that revealed that the Biden administration has been coordinating flights for approximately 320,000 illegal immigrants to 43 different cities across the country.”

“You don't even have to walk these days,” says Sara. “You can just get a free flight, free money, free debit card, free phone — free everything, but if you're an American citizen, no. If you’re a homeless veteran, stay on the streets.”

“It's so blatant, and you may see the Supreme Court end up taking the position of the Federal Government because I do not think that they want freer states,” adds Eric July of Rippaverse Comics.

How Texas would respond to such an unfavorable ruling poses some serious implications.

According to Eric, if SCOTUS blocks SB4 and prevents Texas from protecting its borders, the state must take the position of “we don’t care” and decide to protect the border anyway, regardless of what that means on a national level.

Sara agrees — “What are they going to do? You already have Border Patrol who is calling out Joe Biden and saying he is doing a horrible job ... and they have already come out and said we respect the Texas National Guard.”

“Maybe violence breaks out, but maybe that’s what it has to come to.”


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Are liberal cities actually REVERSING course on crime policies?!



For some inexplicable reason, liberal cities thought decriminalizing petty crime, defunding the police, and softening up the justice system would somehow lead to improvements.

Well, it didn’t. While they might be surprised that their woke policies failed miserably, Sara Gonzales is certainly not shocked.

On Tuesday this week, frustrated San Francisco voters “overwhelmingly voted in support of several ballot measures aimed to quell the spike in crime and drugs,” reports Sara.

“They voted for Measure E — to expand police powers by making it easier for officers to pursue suspects and provide the police force with new cameras and drones, and Measure F, which will require drug screenings for adults receiving welfare.”

Both Measure E and Measure F passed with a “60%” approval rate.

“What a crazy, crazy shift,” says Blaze head researcher and writer Jason Buttrill. “It was just a couple of years ago when they were ushering in Chesa Boudin as the radical DA,” who’s “basically a Marxist.”

San Francisco isn’t alone in its backtracking either.

“Oregon also is re-criminalizing drugs,” says Jason, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is “now putting the National Guard in the subway.”

While these reversals in crime-related policies are certainly encouraging, Sara can’t help but wonder if it’s “too late to put the genie back in the bottle,” especially considering Biden’s open border policies.

Millions of illegal immigrants have been ushered into this country, and yet many liberal politicians continue to say that “there is not a rise in immigrant crime.”

“Ask the family of Laken Riley if there’s a rise in immigrant crime,” says Jason.

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Biden's impeached DHS secretary accuses Gov. Abbott of 'trying to wreak havoc'



Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lashed out Sunday at Gov. Greg Abbott, displacing blame over the illegal immigration crisis and accusing the governor of "trying to wreak havoc" across the nation.

Mayorkas is apparently rankled by Abbott's refusal and that of other Republicans to accept the president's conveniently timed excuses concerning the crisis at the southern border.

With an election around the corner and illegal immigration an increasingly pressing concern for Americans, Biden and elements of his administration have begun suggesting that the solution to the border crisis is primarily a matter for congressional lawmakers to tackle — especially now that Congress is run by Republicans.

Mayorkas, who has overseen the unlawful entry of over 7 million foreign nationals into the country since January 2021 and was impeached last month for "willfully and systemically refus[ing] to comply with the immigration laws," continued to run with the administration's preferred narrative Sunday, telling CNN's "State of the Union" that "administrative action is no substitute for an enduring solution. ... Legislation is the enduring solution."

Last month, the Biden White House was reportedly considering taking executive action on the border, including possibly restricting illegal aliens' ability to claim asylum once in the U.S. However, Mayorkas proved evasive Sunday when pressed about whether the administration would consider even a "Band-Aid" solution in the short term.

Rather, the secretary intimated that his boss, who halted the construction of border wall in his first days in office, was more or less impotent to take meaningful action.

"As a matter of fact, former President Trump tried to close the border, and it was enjoined in the courts and never saw the light of day," said Mayorkas. "The reality is that Congress needs to act, and President Biden said that Congress needs to get a spine."

Abbott told CNN's "State of the Union" the previous week that Biden's suggestion that he needed Congress to take action at the border was "completely false."

"The fact of the matter is, there are laws on the books passed by Congress of the United States right now that authorize the executive branch to deny illegal entry; if people get here illegally, to detain them; as well as to require the president and the presidential administration to build border barriers," continued Abbott. "The president is not using his executive authority to do any of those those things that Congress has already authorized."

"The president doesn't need new laws. The president needs a backbone to make sure that he enforces the immigration laws that are already on the books," added Abbott.

When presented with Abbott's comments, Mayorkas told CNN's Dana Bash, "Couldn't be more wrong, couldn't be more wrong."

"This is coming from an individual who is purposefully refusing to coordinate, communicate, collaborate with other officials and trying to wreak havoc in other cities and states across the country," said Mayorkas, echoing accusations he leveled earlier this year.

The DHS secretary appears to have been referencing Abbott's busing initiative, which presented Democrat-run sanctuary cities with a taste of what Texas and other borders states have long had to deal with.

"That is not a model of governance, and he couldn't be more wrong," added Mayorkas.

While Mayorkas accused Abbott of wreaking havoc, his department and the Biden administration have long fought to prevent Texas from securing its southern border.

For instance, it was Mayorkas' department that penned a cease-and-desist letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in January concerning Texas' efforts to preclude foreign nationals from entering the country via Shelby Park in Eagle Pass. The Biden Department of Justice also attempted to prevent Texas from maintaining a floating barrier on the Rio Grande.

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