Mayorkas Draws Fire From Republicans at Committee Hearing

Mayorkas Draws Fire From Republicans at Committee Hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is interviewed in Washington on June 14, 2021. DHS/U.S. government
Lawrence Wilson
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A House committee hearing on the 2024 budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security became a veritable trial of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom Republicans accused of intentionally failing to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

Committee Democrats tried, with little success, to turn the April 19 hearing of the Committee on Homeland Security back to a discussion of the budget, accusing their GOP counterparts of politicizing a crisis that had grown worse under administrations of both parties, and of grandstanding in order to gain media attention.

The Republican Case

Chairman Mark E. Green (R-Tenn.) assumed the role of prosecutor in his opening statement.