'The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system,' Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CBS News.
El Paso, Texas — In an interview with CBS News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said some migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border are trying to 'game' the U.S. asylum system, echoing a statement often made by Republicans but rarely expressed by Biden administration officials.'The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system,' Mayorkas told CBS News in El Paso last Thursday.
During the interview last week, Mayorkas said a border security proposal he helped broker with a small bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate 'would have equipped us with more tools to deal with those individuals who seek to game the system.
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