US seeing ‘unprecedented’ migration at border with Mexico

Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas visits southwest border, says US facing ‘toughest challenge’ amid pandemic.

The United States is encountering “unprecedented” numbers of people trying to illegally cross the US-Mexico border, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “The situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. It is complicated, changing and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic,” Mayorkas told reporters in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday. “We are encountering an unprecedented number of migrants in between the ports of entry at our southern border,” Mayorkas said.