Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a poll showing growing support for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants by saying that the Biden administration holds in high esteem the value of keeping families together, regardless of immigration status, while recalling President Joe Biden’s words that America is proudly a “nation of immigrants.”
Mr. Mayorkas’ remarks came in a June 18 interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked the Homeland Secretary to respond to a recent CBS / YouGov poll showing that 62 percent of U.S. voters support a new national program to deport all illegal immigrants from the United States, with some form of the proposal endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who has vowed to implement mass deportation measures if elected in November….