Calls to resign rained down on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as he insisted the border was secure, while struggling to answer questions about illegal immigration and the flow of deadly fentanyl.
Animosity ran high as Mr. Mayorkas testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, packed with some of Washington’s most vocal conservatives who peppered him with questions about what has gone wrong over the last two years.
“Your behavior is disgraceful and the deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, are at your feet,” the Texas Republican thundered. “And if you had integrity you’d resign.” After Mr. Mayorkas was unable to say whether Chinese Communist Party members have been among the growing number of Chinese migrants being caught and released into the U.S., Sen. Josh Hawley grew exasperated.
John Modlin, Mr. Mayorkas’ top Border Patrol agent in Arizona’s Tucson sector, also told Congress last month that the cartels are using migrants to keep agents distracted. He said that’s proved to be wildly successful in tamping down on border numbers over the last couple of months. He rejected the definition of “operational control” written into law, which requires detection and deterrence of every attempted illegal entry. He said under that definition, the border has never been under control.
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