Mayorkas deflects blame on border crisis, says it’s been an issue ‘since the ‘90s’

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas distanced himself from the border crisis Sunday, arguing that fixing the country’s immigration system is Congress' job.

"There’s a very important message, not to communicate only to Sen. Sinema but to all senators and all members of the House of Representatives: We need immigration reform," he said. "Everything that the Department of Homeland Security is doing, everything that our partners across the federal government are doing is within a broken immigration system. The president passed to Congress a proposal to fix our broken immigration system on the first day in office." Jessica Chasmar is a digital writer on the politics team for Fox News and Fox Business. Story tips can be sent to Jessica.Chasmar@fox.com.

CBS anchor Margaret Brennan pushed back, saying it doesn’t appear the Democrats have made the border a priority.