Senator Cruz drills DHS Secretary Mayorkas in hearing

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Tucson.com by Pamela Newsome  11/2/2021

https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/letter-senator-cruz-drills-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-in-hearing/article_6adc5672-4878-11ec-8c4f-af747958ac7d.html

In a Senate hearing held on November 16, Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, questioned Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as to how many murderers, rapists and child molesters that DHS has released into the country.

Mayorkas responded that he did not know of any.

Which points to a major problem, our federal law enforcement and immigration data bases do not contain or interface with countries where hundreds of thousands of people entering undocumented are coming from. They in fact could be murderers, rapists or child molesters in their home country.

Our data systems detect those people arrested and/or convicted of crimes in the U.S. When a person legally immigrates to the U.S., they fill out immigration documents, appear for an interview at a U.S. Embassy abroad, and criminal, terrorism, and other inquiries can be done on them with cooperation of the host country.

THAT, is what Senator Cruz was getting at with Mayorkas, who in my opinion, is the worst DHS Secretary we have ever had.

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DHS Secretary Mayorkas can't answer Sen. Cruz's questions on illegal immigration

The Highland County Press By Bethany Blankley 11/20/2021

https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/DHS-Secretary-Mayorkas-can-t-answer-Sen-Cruz-s-questions-on-illegal-immigration/2/20/74074

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week on illegal immigration, Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on policies he’s implemented that have enabled an ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern border.

During his first round of questioning, Mayorkas could not provide data on the conditions of DHS immigration detention facilities, which Cruz refers to as Biden border cages, or how many COVID-positive illegal immigrants the administration has released into the U.S.

After Mayorkas testified several times that the immigration system is “fundamentally broken,” Cruz asked him if the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years occurred under former President Donald Trump.

Mayorkas replied, “I don’t know if it’s within 45 years, but we certainly saw in 2020 a low level of illegal immigration. 2019 was very high.”

Cruz then asked, “True or false Secretary Mayorkas, this year under Joe Biden, we’ve seen the highest rate of illegal immigration in 61 years?”

Mayorkas replied, “Again, I don’t know the number of years, but it’s certainly a historic high, Senator.”

Cruz continued: “So you’re right, it’s broken – but you broke it.”

In Fiscal Year 2021, more than 1.7 million people were encountered by Border Patrol agents entering the U.S. illegally. The number excludes the estimated several hundred thousand who evaded law enforcement.

On the issue of how many people evaded Border Patrol, Mayorkas said he didn’t know how many "got-aways" there were this year, saying, “I will have to circle back with that information.”

More at link.

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Mayorkas is doing exactly what he was hired for.