Sen HawleyMO blasted SecMayorkas during a public hearing on Capitol Hill and accused the Biden administration official of implementing policies that caused “modern-day indentured servitude of minor children” within the US.
The Missouri senator has made waves for his criticism of Mayorkas during previous committee hearings, but he came down even harder on the DHS secretary in a meeting Tuesday that was meant to discuss the department's funding levels for the next year.
Mayorkas opined that the DHS had, in fact, chosen over the past two years to prioritize enforcing worksite laws that protect children, but Hawley responded that had not been what the New York Times found. Secretary Mayorkas’ failed border policies have led to the indentured servitude of migrant children on a scale never seen in American history. Kids treated like slaves in factories. Smugglers collecting the profit. Mayorkas should be removed pic.twitter.com/naql0cTGsQ
"You have at every stage facilitated this modern-day indentured servitude of minor children. Why should you not be impeached for this?" Hawley asked.
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