DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sparred with Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee over the crisis at the southern border, while he and the Democratic lawmakers blamed the Trump administration for his department's troubles.
While the GOP members pressed Mayorkas on migration statistics at the Thursday oversight hearing, Democrats acknowledged that he"inherited something of a mess," as Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said."One of the greatest obstacles we have, Mr. Chairman, is to overcome the distrust that was sown by the prior administration," Mayorkas told New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Nadler said that"the previous administration did all it could to break our immigration system" by enforcing family separation policies in which"children were literally kidnapped from their mothers and fathers with no plans to reunite them" and doing everything in its"power to block legal pathways." Mayorkas, in response to Lofgren's lamentation of the state of the immigration system left by former President Donald Trump, agreed that"the prior administration decimated the legal immigration system, leaving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that administers our nation's legal immigration system, on the brink of bankruptcy."Meanwhile, Republican Rep.
Mayorkas began to answer,"Congressman, when an individual is encountered at the southern border, they are placed in immigration enforcement proceedings —"CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis as Title 42, a pandemic-era measure allowing migrants to be turned away at the border, is set to expire on May 23.
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