Title 42, an emergency health authority that began in March of 2020, was lifted this week. The authority allowed the United States to turn away migrants at the US-Mexico border on the grounds of preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Before Title 42, migrants who crossed illegally could ask for asylum and be allowed into the U.S.
Although Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to state the lifting of Title 42 does not mean the U.S. border is open, critics say the administration has failed to put forth a plan to deal with an inevitable influx of migrants.
Mark Morgan, the former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), joins The Marc Cox Morning Show live from the border in El Paso, Texas.
"It's truly impossible to understand the inhumanity, the risk to our nation's safety and national security unless you're here physically on the ground. I'm here, and really who should be here is the President of the United States."
Morgan calls Secretary Mayorkas an "unbelievable liar" and says Mayorkas omits facts in an attempt to spin a favorable narrative for the Biden administration.
"The challenge is because he's the Secretary a lot of people are buying what he's saying."
Listen above to Morgan's first-hand account of events on the ground in El Paso.
