Mayorkas threatens to FIRE agents who aren't vaccinated by November

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Another caravan of thousands of migrants - many Haitian - are still making the trek from South America to the northern Mexico border to seek asylum in the U.S.
46% : A migrans woman and child exit a Border Patrol bus on September 22 as they are released from custody after seeking asylum in crossing into the U.S. from Mexico
36% : Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is ordering all Customs and Border Protection agents be fully vaccinated against coronavirus by November 2021 or else face termination
31% : 'We talked briefly to the wife of DHS Secretary Mayorkas,' Never Again Action, a Jewish organization advocating for the abolition of ICE, posted on Twitter. '
22% : Mayorkas, whose agency leads CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is receiving the brunt of the backlash for the southern border crisis, which has grown exponentially under the Biden administration.
21% : 'President Biden's vaccine mandate, as applied to CBP, risks reducing the already-depleted Border Patrol workforce in the middle of the unfolding border crisis,' the letter to Mayorkas reads.
20% : 'As the brave men and women of U.S. Border Patrol work tirelessly to respond to the Administration's manufactured border crisis, we have learned that the Department of Homeland Security has threatened to fire Border Patrol officers who refuse to comply with President Biden's vaccine mandate,' a letter to Mayorkas from GOP leaders on the panel reads.
14% : Jordan and McClintock also explained in their letter how it is already difficult to recruit and retain people to work as Border Patrol agents considering jobs are often in remote areas of the country and the nature of the job is 'dangerous and hard' 'The job is made even harder when senior officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris, spread false accusations of cruelty - as has occurred in recent days to mounted officers in Del Rio - while ignoring reports of attacks against Border Patrol personnel,' the dup added in taking a hit at Harris, who Biden put in charge of mitigating the southern border crisis earlier this year.

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