U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told lawmakers on Wednesday that DHS does not have operational control of the southern border, as he also said parts were in crisis.
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are hitting Democrats for pulling out of a hearing at the border.on Wednesday told lawmakers the agency does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border -- as he also said that migration levels were at"crisis" levels in parts of the border.
He then explained the challenges facing agents and even used the word"crisis" -- a phrase the administration has often rejected when describing the situation at the border – when describing the enormous amounts of migrants that the border has encountered in recent years.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on"Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022.
"Despite inheriting a dismantled immigration system and facing unprecedented migration that is affecting nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, this Administration has surged resources to the border, reducing the number of encounters between ports of entry, disrupting more smuggling operations than ever before, and interdicting more drugs in the last two years than had been stopped in the five years prior," a spokesperson said.
On Wednesday, Ortiz was asked by Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., if the changes in policy by the Biden administration to release migrants into the interior rather than detain and release was the driver of the crisis.
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