Mayorkas’ latest border reset: More amnesty and more troops; Venezuelans get special status

 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting his third immigration policy reset in just nine months, announcing more troop deployments to the border and faster deportation of families, coupled with an expanded amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and more generous work permits for other illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

Mr. Mayorkas is facing yet another wave of unprecedented border chaos. Border Patrol agents reportedly are arresting nearly 7,000 migrants a day.

The numbers were punctuated by images of Eagle Pass, a small town on the Rio Grande in Texas where thousands of migrants have swamped its shores this week. They camp out under a bridge and dare the government to deport them...more