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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay. can i have your attention please? have conversation with the secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, known to many as alley. >> thank ypplae] >> why do we did right into it? why did you want to leave a very prosperous law firm job to be the secretary of homeland sety you ever had any second thoughts about that job?

[laughing] no second thoughts. what a privilege it is t a place one loves to biblical took place one loves. >> okay. >> tayhe two worlds is by borrowing and stealing talent. so jhe chair, , culture of her homeland security advisory council in the depament of homeland security and the jewel thief that am i firm to join us and he will be a senior counselor on matters o. >> okay. well, let me talk about the elephant in the room, because you were the seconretary in the history of our country to be what was it like living through that impeachment process? is it finally over now? >> to the best of my knowledge it over. so quite frankly i have said publicly a number of times that i did not allow it to distract

me. that was actually sincere. i focus intensely on my work throughout -- on, any week where it was an issue of greater prominence in the light the department. i might've spent 20 minutes on it. it it had its impact on loved ones. >> as will rogers once said, paraphrasing, the country is never safs as the house is in session come right? so you never know. it may nev come back, right? >> one would hope not. >> okay. lesorder. it appears there are a lot of com in over the border. this is one of the subjects that people wanted to beat y some people want to be impeached over. it's a really weird g people come in over the border illegally or is it just the appearance of >> no, no. the number of encounters at thet

it's very, very important, number one, to conceptualizet, and a virtue, to explain it. from a context perspective the worldsg the greatest level of displacement since a ed i think there are, a recent report was tn displaced people and the united states.■v so the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border, nor tohe hemisphere. it is global. when i speak tocros the atlantic, it's the first issue that they raise, the first challenge -- what is the reason for that? w displacement, violence, insecurity, poverty, corruption, authoritarian regimes. now increasingly extreme weather events that propel people to

av why are we experiencing what we are? it is for those very reasons why people leave their countries of we also, remember in our hemisphere, we overcame covid more rapidly than any other country. we had post covid world 11 million jobs to fill. we are a country of choice as a d one takes those two forces and then one considers the fact ing immigration system that is broken fundamentally, and we have a lever that we do. when we speak of a broken system, let me just capture the as succinctly as the average time it between encounter and the point of final adjudication of an asylum