Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday faced intense questioning from House Republicans about security along the U.S.-Mexico border, with one member even suggesting Mayorkas may have committed treason.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday faced intense questioning from House Republicans about security along the U.S.-Mexico border
Mayorkas said the U.S. turns back migrants who don’t claim to have a legal right to be in the country, namely seeking asylum and repeatedly blamed Trump administration policies for decimating the legal immigration system Visibly angry, Mayorkas said Buck’s remarks were “profoundly offensive on so many different levels, in so many different regards.”
“President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas want illegal immigration,” said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the committee’s top Republican. “They want illegal migrants to come stay and never go home.” “Hundreds of thousands of others that we didn't catch — the got-aways — have also entered our country, and the secretary says the border is secure,” Jordan said. “ … If that's a secure border, then you are completely, completely out of touch with the American people.”
He said his department has limited resources and called for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, which Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., candidly said was “very unlikely to happen.”
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