{"id":24713,"date":"2021-06-30T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2021-06-30T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:22:58","slug":"left-groups-redefine-dhs-mission-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/30\/left-groups-redefine-dhs-mission-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Recalibrating\u2019 DHS Into Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) nears its 20th birthday, left-leaning think tanks want the agency to \u201crecalibrate\u201d<\/a> its mission and reduce its supposedly \u201coutsized focus on immigration enforcement.\u201d Downplaying, even ignoring, lawlessness at the border, the recommendations make a mockery of DHS\u2019s title, and expose Americans to ongoing threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open borders groups have been honing the recalibration theme<\/a> for a decade. Last year, the Center for a New American Security<\/a> \u2013 with funding from the State Department, global corporations and progressive foundations \u2013 complained that DHS immigration operations had \u201cgrown disproportionately large in size and broad in scope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nthe Biden administration in office, another center, the Center for American\nProgress (CAP), sees an opportunity to ratchet down enforcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of today\u2019s most serious threats to America\u2019s safety and prosperity \u2014 natural disasters, pandemic disease, cyber attacks and violent white supremacy \u2014 originate at home or are borderless by nature,\u201d CAP opined<\/a>. As such, the group is promoting \u201cfive new core values [for DHS]: connecting, communicating, facilitating, welcoming and helping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DHS is getting on board. FAIR<\/a> reported that the agency is using private contractors to expedite asylum applications at the border. Raul Ortiz<\/a>, the new boss at DHS\u2019s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, plans to drop the health-related Title 42 removal rule and allow more illegal aliens to enter the U.S. Meantime, removals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> are at all-time lows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The welcoming \u201cGet to Yes\u201d<\/a> philosophy that Alejandro Mayorkas peddled at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during the Obama years dovetails with the new rhetoric about \u201cfacilitating,\u201d etc. As DHS secretary, Mayorkas is now in position to \u201crecalibrate\u201d on a massive scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But DHS was never intended to be a \u201cwelcoming\u201d and \u201chelping\u201d operation. Rather, in the words of the agency\u2019s mission statement<\/a>, it was \u201cborn from the commitment and resolve of Americans in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.\u201d Security remains Job One, even in the left\u2019s \u201cborderless\u201d world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 240,000 employees dispersed among 22 agencies, DHS must seek ways to improve its organization and sharpen its focus — particularly as Team Biden flatlines<\/a> its budget. While the Border Patrol is overwhelmed and understaffed at the southern border, the agency last week filled executive positions<\/a> to facilitate international trade. CBP\u2019s dual role as the nation\u2019s largest law enforcement agency (Border Patrol) and the second biggest revenue collector (Customs) may be incompatible to the point of counter-productivity. Fuzzy platitudes about recalibration do nothing to address this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom\nline, DHS is entrusted with the critical task of securing the homeland.\nAnything that blurs this mission, or detracts from it, is to surrender American\nsovereignty. It is an exercise in defeatism \u2026 or worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) nears its 20th birthday, left-leaning think tanks want the agency to \u201crecalibrate\u201d its mission and reduce its supposedly \u201coutsized focus on immigration enforcement.\u201d Downplaying, even ignoring, lawlessness at the border, the recommendations make a mockery of DHS\u2019s title, and expose Americans to ongoing threats. Open borders groups have<\/p>\n

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