EXCLUSIVE: Top Republican Tells Mayorkas to Expect Subpoena If Documents Aren’t Produced by Friday

A compromised border app is said to enable cartels to profit by charging immigrants and assisting entry into the US by terrorists and other subversives.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judicary Committee in Washington on April 28, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faces an Oct. 20 deadline for producing to the House Homeland Security Committee materials in 19 separate categories of documents that may shed light on Mexican drug cartels compromising the CBP One app used by immigrants to facilitate their entry into the United States.

Introduced in October 2020 as a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) tool for shippers and other legal border traffic to schedule their movements efficiently into and out of the United States, the CBP One app was seized upon by Mr. Mayorkas early in 2021 as a tool for increasing the flow of immigrants in an orderly manner. More than 6 million immigrants have crossed the southern border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden reversed the border policies of then-President Donald Trump.