President Joe Biden “absolutely” should have moved faster to tighten security at the U.S. border, according to outgoing acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director P.J. Lechleitner.

Lechleitner also told NBC News that the “career people” at the Department of Homeland Security believe Biden should have acted sooner, the network reported Thursday.

“All of us in DHS, quite frankly, I don’t know if anybody in DHS wouldn’t have wanted that earlier,” he said. 

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