Nets Ignore Leaked Audio of Border Patrol Butting Heads with Mayorkas

A meeting between Yuma Sector Border Patrol Agents and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week was secretly recorded by an agent and leaked to Townhall’s Julio Rosas on Wednesday. The recording shows agents arguing with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they press him about the Biden administration’s insufficient assistance. One agent appears to have turned his back on him. It was over 24 hours since the news broke, but the secretary’s office still had not issued a statement and liberal broadcast networks continued to conceal it.

“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ meeting with Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector on Wednesday did not go well after he admitted the staggering number of illegal border crossings has made the agents’ job more difficult,” Rosas reported.

Adding: “Mayorkas conceded the massive influx of people illegally crossing into the sector, along with the rest of the southern sectors, has not been easy.”

You can listen to the entire audio at this link. Townhall does note that “Audio distortion is a result of being discreetly recorded by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.”

In the audio that was aired on Fox News Channel’s HannityOn Wednesday night Mayorkas was heard playing dumb as he tried to explain how illegal immigrants were bussed from Yuma Sector when he and politicians visited:

AGENT: Every time someone important comes here, we rush out – 50 more buses that come in and they take as many people out of here as they can. It’s not like you guys want to experience it for yourself. Why are we sending so many people out here before we get there? That’s not really showing them was it is.

MAYORKAS: I’m not exactly sure I follow, sorry.

Through the scratchy audio, the agents could be heard laughing at Mayorkas’ weak attempt to seem oblivious.

Rosas further reported that some of those agents pressed Mayorkas on how he, other Biden officials, and President Biden himself have “demonized” the Border Patrol.

“The second agent said it has been ‘demoralizing’ to see politicians and others ‘demonize’ Border Patrol when they often save illegal immigrants from injury and death,” he wrote, noting the incident where the left and the administration lied about agents “whipping” people trying the cross. “Mayorkas said he understands being demonized because he has had threats against his life and the life of his family.”

Fox News also included a disgruntled agent who turned his back on Mayorkas. “The commitment remains that we’ll keep fighting. And let me just say you can turn your back on me, but I’ll never turn my back on you,” the Secretary said. “You did the day you were appointed,” the agent shot back.

And although DHS didn’t respond to Townhall’s request for comment, they did respond to Fox News. “Secretary Mayorkas welcomes candor during these conversations, and appreciates and respects the opinions of each member of the CBP workforce,” Sean Hannity read.

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