“[I] heard Border Patrol agents loud and clear. . . . I am fighting to get more resources they need,” Mayorkas also tweeted in January 2022. Actually, that’s not the case. In a federal budget unveiled in April 2022, Biden allocated $309 million for border security technology and $494 million for “noncitizen processing and care costs.” So we’re talking just $800 million out of $5.6 trillion, 0.014 percent of the entire budget. Nothing for border wall construction, of course. In the announcement of Mayorkas’s nomination to run homeland security, what many in the press focused on wasn’t
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