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Mayorkas’s division is charged with stopping overseas and home terrorist assaults. It screens threats from weapons of mass destruction, protects infrastructure and ensures we’re secure from cyber assaults.
What lots of DHS’s companies do have in frequent is that you simply typically don’t hear a lot about them except one thing actually dangerous has occurred.
So even when Mayorkas didn’t additionally oversee immigration, essentially the most fraught of political points, being DHS secretary – accountable for defending the nation in opposition to terrorism, laptop hackers, nuclear weapons, and pure disasters – can typically be a thankless job.
And regardless of his finest makes an attempt, it’s Mayorkas’s administration of Border Patrol, ICE, and Immigration Providers that has dominated his tenure and made him the GOP’s important goal of assault within the Biden Cupboard.
On this episode of Deep Dive, Ryan and Sec. Mayorkas talk about how the terrorism risk has modified during the last twenty years, the challenges of confronting home extremism, why the tip of Title 42 didn’t result in the border surge many predicted, the way forward for TSA, the fentanyl disaster, the prospects of impeachment, and the way going by way of the meat grinder of D.C. politics has modified him.