Lechleitner said President Joe Biden should “absolutely” have acted sooner to tighten border security to reduce the flow of migrants into the United States.
By September, the monthly total of illegal border crossings had dropped to 54,000, the lowest since Biden took office.
Acting ICE Director Patrick J. Lechleitner during an interview with Julia Ainsley of NBC News in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Lechleitner says he’s not surprised that Biden has not identified the lack of action at the border as a regret.
After being appointed acting ICE director by the Biden administration last year, Lechleitner said, he often asked for more resources for an agency that, according to him, was chronically underfunded.
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