Mayorkas held calls with ACLU nearly two dozen times in five-month period in 2021, documents show

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held 23 calls with the American Civil Liberties Union in the first six months of the Biden administration, newly-released records show.

The calendar shows 23 calls with the left-wing civil rights group, which has called for immigration detention as a "last resort," and opposed multiple Trump-era border security and interior enforcement initiatives. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

The meetings coincided with a dramatic lurch to the left by the Biden administration after it took over from the Trump administration, during which the new administration sought to slap a moratorium on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations, scrapped the "Remain-in-Mexico" policy and halted border wall construction. Republicans have tied those moves and others, including an expansion of "catch-and-release," to the historic migrant surge that followed. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.