President Trump on Tuesday directed his people to take a look at investigating former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border chaos of the past four years.

“I’ll take a look at that one,” the president said in response to a question while opening the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility in Florida. “If he wasn’t given a pardon, I can see looking at that.”

He was then told Mr. Mayorkas wasn’t pardoned.

Mr. Trump said Mr. Mayorkas “took orders from other people,” but added that wouldn’t exonerate him.

Mr. Mayorkas led Homeland Security for nearly the entirety of the Biden administration, overseeing a relaxation of immigration enforcement that ushered in millions of migrants and cut deportation rates of those already here.

He was impeached by the GOP-led House on charges of misleading Congress and failing to enforce the laws. The Senate acquitted him last year.

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.