Name: TIME Interviews Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Uploaded: 2021-05-27T12:20:48.000Z
Duration: 8 min 8 s
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Secretary Mayorkas has a lot on his plate.

He has to deal with immigration and the border,

but also his agency is  responsible for helping businesses

We just had a major hack that shutdown a pipeline, for example.

He also is in charge of protecting airports,

being part of the counter-terrorism mission,

And he also has to think about the emerging threat

in the wake of the insurrection  at the Capitol building.

So there's a lot of hot issues that  are coming to his desk right now.

and how he is handling the situation there.

He went to the Rio Grande Valley and talked

First of all, the Border Patrol  station is no place for a child.

So our immediate responsibility is get them out

of the Border Patrol station  as quickly as possible

the Department of Health and Human Services.

We have dedicated more than  300 Asylum and Refugee officers

to assist in case management to contract the time

unification with the parent or legal guardian

We refuse to say that we will not reunite

And we are committed to reuniting the families

We recognize, number one, that we're dealing

with records that we are only now bringing

We're dealing with such intangibles such as

individuals' reluctance to  come forward to be reunited.

We have trust deficits to overcome by reason

And quite frankly, some people are hard to find.

[Bennett]: What do you say to parents considering sending

their children across the border right now?

The danger of the journey  is so extraordinarily acute,

legal pathways to assess the  eligibility of individuals

to actually receive relief under U.S. law.

And don't risk your children's lives, which

and they are at risk in the hands of smugglers.

[Bennett]: Secretary Mayorkas is the first immigrant,

who was born overseas, came  to the U.S. as a child,

to take on the role of leading this department.

He was born in Cuba, came with his family

after the rise of Fidel  Castro's communism government

and he brings a different perspective to the job,

a different perspective to the department

because of that family background that he has.

My first interview as a  government--federal government

the reporter, the first question I got was,

and then she asked me a question,  which I didn't even hear

Am I no longer Cuban? Do we lose our past

[Mayorkas]: I said, I said that's just a no.

I haven't lost that. I'm a Cuban-American.

I'm not a citizen of Cuba but  I haven't lost my heritage.

I think my family's experience and my own

influences my judgement, influences my perspective

on the world, on life, and on addressing the needs

of the American public, and  the needs of the migrants,

in making deportation decisions, you know,

given the pattern of racially biased policing

Will you consider ignoring criminal convictions

[Mayorkas]: Brian, when you ask that question do you mean

Or factoring them into the decision in the

exercise of discretion? I would, you can see

by my response, which I put in question mark,

we will not ignore criminal history but we will

evaluate criminal history in determining whether

an individual poses a public safety threat.

I don't expect there to be unanimity of view

with respect to the guidelines  that I ultimately promulgate.

[Abrams]: Do you believe that Russia was involved at all

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