On immigration, terrorists, and fentanyl, DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has something to say

Mayorkas’s division is charged with stopping overseas and home terrorist assaults. It displays threats from weapons of mass destruction, protects infrastructure and ensures we’re secure from cyber assaults.

What a lot of DHS’s companies do have in frequent is that you simply usually don’t hear a lot about them except one thing actually unhealthy has occurred.

So even when Mayorkas didn’t additionally oversee immigration, probably the most fraught of political points, being DHS secretary – chargeable for defending the nation in opposition to terrorism, laptop hackers, nuclear weapons, and pure disasters – can usually be a thankless job.

And regardless of his greatest makes an attempt, it’s Mayorkas’s administration of Border Patrol, ICE, and Immigration Companies that has dominated his tenure and made him the GOP’s predominant goal of assault within the Biden Cupboard.

On this episode of Deep Dive, Ryan and Sec. Mayorkas talk about how the terrorism menace has modified over the past 20 years, the challenges of confronting home extremism, why the top of Title 42 didn’t result in the border surge many predicted, the way forward for TSA, the fentanyl disaster, the prospects of impeachment, and the way going by way of the meat grinder of D.C. politics has modified him.