A database of federal documents shows that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other top officials handling the crisis at the southern border have millions of dollars in assets, prompting some key supporters of President Trump to accuse them of forcing mass migration on ordinary Americans while avoiding consequences.
“Inside Biden's Basement,” which lists OGE Form 278e showing the financial worth of government employees, is an offshoot of the 501(c)4 Transparency Action Fund.
According to the database, Mayorkas' estimated net worth ranges from $3.8 million to $9 million.
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A reporter raises his hand to ask a question to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, July 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
Previous reports had put Mayorkas' net worth at about $8 million. His finances, particularly his salary, came under scrutiny this year when Republicans voted to block his salary.
It was an amendment from Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona to a House spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025 that would have blocked funds in the bill from being used to pay Mayorkas.
Biggs attributed the pay freeze to Mayorkas' impeachment trial in the House earlier this year. Mayorkas was impeached by the Republican-led House for his handling of the border crisis, but the Senate did not take up his case. The Department of Homeland Security ignored Republican attempts to freeze his pay.
“While the House Majority has wasted months trying to score points with baseless attacks, Secretary Mayorkas has been doing his job and working hard to keep the American people safe,” the spokesman said last year. “Instead of continuing their reckless travesty and attacks on law enforcement, Congress should work with us to keep our country safe, build on the progress made at the Department of Homeland Security, and make desperately needed reforms to our broken immigration system that can only be fixed through legislation.”
Meanwhile, other officials were also assessed by the website to have high net worths.
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Migrants line up at a remote U.S. Border Patrol processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Lukeville, Arizona, on Dec. 7, 2023. Jesus Enrique Ramirez Cabrera entered the country illegally through Arizona in December 2023, was arrested and released into the United States, according to federal sources. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
Lois Bernstein Murray, the undersecretary for border and immigration policy, has an estimated net worth of between $1.7 million and $6.8 million. Michelle Blaine, the immigration detention ombudsman and former executive director of the department's Family Reunification Task Force, has an estimated net worth of between $1.4 million and $3.3 million.
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While the website shows other administration officials have significantly higher net worths, the immigration figures drew criticism from former Trump White House official Stephen Miller, who told Fox News Digital that the figures show wealthy officials' ability to distance themselves from administration policies.
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“Left-wing elites are using their wealth to distance themselves as much as possible from the catastrophe they have unleashed on everyone else, while forcing unwilling masses into intolerable mass migration,” Miller, who is also the founder of America First Legal, told Fox News Digital.
Immigration and the ongoing border crisis have become a top issue in the United States ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Republicans blame the crisis on the Biden administration's ending of Trump administration policies. The Biden administration says its strategy of expanding legal immigration routes while imposing punitive measures at the border is working, pointing to a recent drop in migrant encounters of more than 50% since June, when President Biden signed an executive order imposing new restrictions.
