House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is set to lead a group of Republican lawmakers to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday for the first time since the party took power in the lower chamber earlier this year.
McCarthy, a staunch critic of the Biden administration’s immigration and border policies, will travel to Arizona, accompanied by a cadre of first-term Republican lawmakers — Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., Jen Kiggans, R-Va., and Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz.
In November, McCarthy alleged that Mayorkas’ actions “produced the greatest wave of illegal immigration in recorded history.” At the beginning of the year, President Joe Biden announced a new policy for people from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti and Cuba – the four populations that in recent months have traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border most often. People from those countries could apply to migrate through a new temporary program, but they could be blocked from the program and expelled to Mexico if they instead try to cross the border.
“The January monthly operational update clearly illustrates that new border enforcement measures are working,” said Troy Miller, acting CBP commissioner, in a statement.“Since President Biden took action to implement new border enforcement and immigration measures last month, illegal border crossings are down to their lowest levels in years,” said White House spokesperson Ian Sams.
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