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Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secretary

“The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: Trump’s administration did make significant changes to the U.S. immigration system, but those changes are not wholly responsible for a surge in migration or the Biden administration's ability to deal with it.