DHS Sec.: Now Is Not the Time to Come to the Border, Give Us Time to Build an Orderly, Safe Way to Arrive in the U.S.

EXCERPT:

MAYORKAS: "And we are building the capacity to address the needs of those children when they arrive, but we are also and critically sending an important message that now is not the time to come to the border. And it’s an important message. Let me share with you a real-life example why. We encountered at the border three young children under the age of 10 without a parent or a legal guardian. We did not expel them as the Trump Administration did. We took in those children and placed them in the care and custody of Health and Human Services until we can put them in the custody of a parent or legal guardian or close relative here in the United States. But their mother didn’t make it along the dangerous journey and that is why we are saying, do not take the dangerous journey now, give us time to build an orderly, safe way to arrive in the United States and make the claims that the law permits you to make."