Congressman Clay Higgins (R-La.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized the Democrats on the committee for boycotting a field hearing on the border in Pharr, Texas, on Wednesday.
The highest-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), announced on Tuesday that the Democratic side of the committee would not be attending what he described as a Republican effort to “score political points.” Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee also skipped a field hearing at the border in Yuma, Arizona, last month.
