The House's primary impeachment body took a step forward toward pushing out the Biden administration's top border security official, which would mark the first Cabinet-level official to be fired by Congress.
The GOP-run House Judiciary Committee concluded after four hours of questioning Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was misinformed, uninformed, and dishonest about the state of his 260,000-person department. It was Judiciary's first hearing targeting Mayorkas after the House Homeland Security Committee launched an extensive, ongoing investigation into the former Obama administration DHS official.
"We asked you to be prepared. We wrote letters in the last several weeks to be prepared to answer that kind of question," Chairman Jim Jordan said at the conclusion of the hearing."The fact that you won't is bad, and the fact that you don't know is just as bad." "We have a national security crisis, and you sit in here and you're looking at us with a very smiley face. It's unacceptable," Spartz said.
"You've already released more than 2.1 million illegal immigrants into this country since you took office and that's the population the size of the state of Nebraska," McClintock said."While the Border Patrol has been consumed by taking names and changing diapers at the border, one and a half million known gotaways have illegally entered the country as well. That's an additional illegal population the size of the state of Hawaii.
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