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No Single Solution For Border Security, Mayorkas Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

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No Single Solution For Border Security, Mayorkas Says

Construction of steel bollards along a portion of the southern border during the Trump administration. Photo: CBP

There is no one solution to strengthening U.S. borders and the issue will require further study, Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next Homeland Security Secretary said on Tuesday. Mayorkas told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he hasn’t examined whether existing physical barriers along the southern U.S. border should be removed but said it’s not a “monolithic challenge” to achieving border security. “The border is varied, depending on the geography, depending on the…

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