Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas painted a grim picture of what’s in store for the southern border next month with the end of Title 42.
— warning lawmakers, in separate testimony, of an expected surge of border crossings and a shortage of beds at detention facilities.
During the hearing, the DHS chief called border security a top priority and insisted his department was working to find solutions to mitigate the expected surge, including with its request for $4.7 billion in emergency funding designated for a Southwest Border Contingency Fund. “I stand at the ready to receive articles of impeachment from the House and conduct an impeachment trial in this body,” Marshall said. “But in the meantime, I think the Senate must show our colleagues in the House that we’ve had enough of the failures from the Department of Homeland Security and believe that the secretary is not fit to faithfully carry out the duties of his office.”
Johnson said that he had sought thousands more beds for detainees in the agency’s new budget, which the Biden administration rejected – giving him a maximum of 34,000 detention beds.
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