Mayorkas Claims Payments to Migrant Families Is Not a ‘Pull Factor’
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is pushing back against the argument that payments to migrant families separated at the border would lead to more illegal immigration. During a hearing before the Senate…
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is pushing back against the argument that payments to migrant families separated at the border would lead to more illegal Immigration.
During a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on border security Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Mayorkas if the United States pays migrant families “will we get more illegal Immigration or less illegal Immigration.”
He replied, “I do not think a mother would travel to the United States in the hands of traffickers so that she can be separated from her 7-year-old daughter.”
Cruz interrupted, “Can you answer the question? Those were two yes and no questions.”
Mayorkas answered, “I do not think that it would be a pull factor.”
Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration is considering paying migrant families separated under the Trump administration roughly $450,000 a person.