Mayorkas admits 'tragic rise' of delta variant at US-Mexico border 'surprised' him
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conceded Monday that the surge of the delta variant at the border took him by surprise.
"We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%," he continued. "When one is speaking of 7,000 or 7,500 people encountered at the border every day, if one takes a look at that the system, it is not built for that in a COVID environment where isolation is required."
Mayorkas' comments came a day after he told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that approximately 12,000 Haitian migrants have been released into the United States amid the surge at the border in recent weeks.
"Approximately, I think it's about 10,000 or so, 12,000," Mayorkas said regarding the number of those released. He also said that number could increase after 5,000 other cases are processed.
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