Homeland security sec’y to migrants: Don’t come here!

With growing numbers of migrants gathering at the U.S. border with Mexico, the Biden administration had a simple message Sunday: Stay home!

The U.S. is expelling families and single adults trying to enter illegally and wants to find ways for migrants to apply for refuge while in Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The message is quite clear — do not come,” Mayorkas said. “The border is closed, the border is secure.”

He emphasized that the U.S. is not kicking out “young, vulnerable children.”

The White House wants to make plans for temporary care for young migrants, as U.S. authorities counted more than 9,000 unaccompanied children at the border last month.

The surge in migrants at the border since President Biden took office — many of them waiting there for months and a constant stream of new arrivals fleeing Central American gang violence — has the new administration scrambling to avert a political and humanitarian crisis.

Mayorkas reiterated the Biden administration’s criticism of how former President Donald Trump handled the tense situation.

“President Trump dismantled the orderly, humane and efficient way of allowing children to make their claims under United States law in their home countries,” Mayorkas said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We are rebuilding those orderly and safe processes as quickly as possible.”

Meanwhile, U.S. border towns are coping with a surge in new arrivals, straining resources.

“We are executing on our plans,” Mayorkas said.

“And quite frankly, when we are finished doing so, the American public will look back on this and say we secured our border and we upheld our values and our principles as a nation.”

But GOP fearmongering continued, with Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) predicting 1 million migrants will try to get into the U.S. by summer.

“It’s going to get worse,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The messages coming back [is] that, ‘Hey, we got a new president, come on in. We’re open for business to the traffickers.’ ”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that, “The border is closed,” but he emphasized that the U.S. is not kicking out “young, vulnerable children.”