Mayorkas addresses border crisis during Texas visit.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is holding a press conference in Brownsville, Texas, as the end nears for pandemic-era Title 42 immigration restrictions. President Biden ordered 1,500 troops to the southern U.S. border to assist in patrolling areas bracing for the policy change. Republicans have been fiercely critical of Mayorkas’s performance in office, making continued calls for his removal. Some Democrats, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also see the administration’s immigration policy to date as inadequate.