The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to learn about the situation on the ground at the southern border, directly from chief patrol agents who deal with the crisis every day.
Biggs announced last week that he was introducing an article of impeachment against Mayorkas, claiming that the secretary's refusal to complete the construction of a border wall as well as insufficient staffing have contributed toTestifying at Tuesday's hearing will be Chief Patrol Agents Gloria Chavez and John Modlin of the Rio Grande Valley Sector andSector, respectively.
"I am pleased that the DHS is no longer taking such a position," Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a letter to Mayorkas last week. The hearing comes as migrants continue to come to the border in staggering numbers. According to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, December 2022 saw 251,487 southwest land border encounters, up from 179,253 in December 2021, 73,994 in December 2020, and 40,565 in December 2019.
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