Someone should tell the Department of Homeland Security Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about that. Many politicians no longer adhere to that common opinion. These days politicians, mostly Democrats, speak overseas and rip other Americans, mostly Republicans. 

Mayorkas traveled to Guatemala to meet with President Bernardo Arevalo in the Guatemalan capital on Thursday. He said that an immigration law passed in Texas known as SB 4 is unconstitutional. Imagine that. The DHS secretary told the president of a Central American country that one state's law is a problem. He was allegedly there to work on cooperation in curbing the flood of illegal immigrants that cross the southern border. The largest part of the southern border is the Texas border with Mexico. 

During a joint press conference, Mayorkas said, “It is our strongly held view as a matter of law that SB4 (the Texas law) … is unconstitutional and it is our hope and confidence that the courts will strike it down with finality.” 

In an interview with The Associated Press later Thursday, Mayorkas added “Should SB4 be permitted to proceed, we are very concerned about the effect it would have and the chaos that it could bring to the challenge of border migration.”

Mayorkas described the U.S.-led regional strategy toward immigration as seeking to “build lawful, safe and orderly pathways for people to reach safety from their place of persecution and, at the same time, returning people to their countries as a consequence when they do not take advantage of those lawful pathways.”

This is infuriating. He told a foreign leader that the Biden administration is actively working against one state - a very large red state - to suck up to the leader of a country that allows the flow of its people to continue to illegally cross into Texas or another border state. The Biden administration sides with Guatemala instead of Texas.

The secretary talked about the administration's strategy on immigration as though it has one. It does not. Neglect is not a strategy. The only strategy the Biden administration has for the southern border is to keep it open so that millions of illegal aliens cross the border and remain in the United States.

The open southern border should be an embarrassment to Mayorkas because he is in charge of securing it. However, Biden's lack of will to secure the border shows weakness, not strength. Illegal immigrants are emboldening Guatemalans and others to break U.S. immigration law as they cross the border outside of a legal port of entry.

Guatemala uses what are called safe mobility offices to streamline the process for those seeking asylum in America. These offices allow people to start the process in their home country. The idea is for them to begin the paperwork before they set out for the southern border. These offices are only open to Guatemalans, though, who seek U.S. protection. Mayorkas asked that migrants from other countries be allowed to use its safe mobility offices to process their requests for asylum. Guatemalan officials said that request is under consideration. Colombia is the same - it only allows its citizens to use the safe mobility offices there.

During the joint press conference, Mayorkas was asked about supporting a safe third-country agreement like Trump had with the previous president of Guatemala. Mayorkas would not commit to that. 

Asked during the joint news conference if the U.S. government had asked Guatemala to sign a safe third country agreement, which Guatemala’s previous president had agreed to during the Trump administration, Mayorkas did not directly answer. Such an agreement would require migrants from other countries passing through Guatemala to seek protection from the Guatemalan government rather than at the U.S. border.

Asked again in the interview with the AP, Mayorkas said that Guatemala could be a safe destination for some migrants, but that he deferred to Arévalo’s administration on that.

It is bad enough that lack of leadership by this administration is obviously the core of the Biden border crisis. It is unthinkable that Mayorkas broadcasts the administration's incompetence in a foreign country. 

The Biden administration has sought to improve cooperation with Central and Southern American countries along the migrant route. These countries include Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. It is more difficult, Mayorkas said, with Nicaragua and Venezuela because of strained relations with those governments.

President Arevalo said, “We are operating under the principle that the immigration phenomenon is a regional phenomenon and that for that reason has to have answers framed in the collaborative efforts of different countries.” Good luck with that.

SB 4 allows state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport illegal aliens in the state. The Biden DOJ is fighting Texas over putting the new law into effect. The law is on hold now and will likely have to be settled by the Supreme Court. The Biden administration points to the Constitution that gives the federal government sole control over immigration. The action by Texas is different than past cases because Governor Abbott proclaimed the border crisis as an invasion. That puts an additional dimension on the question of whether or not Texas can work separately from the federal government to protect its border. 

There would be no need for SB 4 if the Biden administration would do its job. Texas has been left on its own to deal with the open southern border. So, Governor Abbott and the state legislature passed a law that is a little different from previous challenges to federal enforcement, or lack thereof. Biden is not concerned about the United States border. Without a secure border, a country has no sovereignty. 

We've never had a president who has not even attempted to secure the southern border until Joe Biden. We are in unchartered territory. About 9 million apprehensions have been made during Biden's term in office. Those are just the ones that Border Patrol has recorded, it does not include the gotaways.