DHS Will Allow Border Agents to Testify on Border Crisis After Subpoena Threats
The Department of Homeland SecurityDHS) will allow two chief border patrol agents to testify before a Congressional hearing on the U.S. Crisis at the borderAfter trying unsuccessfully to “muzzle” According to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), they are.
A letter to DHS Secretaryhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/t-alejandro-mayorkas”>Alejandro MayorkasComer outlined how DHS leadership tried to prevent chief border agents from appearing at the Feb. 7, hearing. But, it later changed its stance after Comer threatened subpoenas.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability plans to hold the hearing to gather facts from U.S. Border Patrol witnesses. The hearing is titled “On the Front Lines of the Border Crisis: A Hearing with Chief Patrol Agents.”
Comer wrote that he invited the agents’ testimony on Jan. 19 and that DHS “initially sought to prevent Congress from hearing invaluable testimony from Chief Patrol Agents, believing that DHS’s internal protocols superseded Congressional oversight prerogatives.”
“I am pleased that the DHS is no longer taking such a position, and will make available as witnesses Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez, Rio Grande Valley Sector and Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, Tucson Sector,” Comer wrote (PDF). “These two law enforcement professionals also serve as Lead Field Coordinators for the border regions that collectively include Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.”
In a statement, Comer described the Biden administration’s “radical open borders policies” The cause of the “worst border crisis in American history.”
“Starting on day one in office, President [Joe] Biden and his administration rolled back deterrent-focused policies, halted the construction of the border wall, gutted interior enforcement, pushed amnesty for illegal immigrants—all of which have made it difficult for U.S. Border Patrol agents to secure the border,” Comer stated this in a statement.
“Next week, we will hear firsthand from the Border Patrol about this humanitarian and national security crisis,” He said that Republicans on the panel had committed themselves to holding the Biden administration responsible.
Republicans Want to Impeach Mayorkas
Republicans have been critical of Mayorkas’s handling of the crisis at the southern U.S. border, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) repeatedly calling on him to resign last year, and declaring his intention to investigate and impeach Mayorkas.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. Fox News He plans to file articles of the ahref=”https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-impeachment”>impeachment against Mayorkas.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) introduced Articles of impeachment against Mayorkas on Jan. 9 for “high crimes and misdemeanors” The House Judiciary Committee was referred.
According to the text of Fallon’s resolution, Mayorkas is accused of violating his constitutional oath by engaging in conduct that is “incompatible with his duties” as secretary of Homeland Security by not effectively maintaining operational control over the U.S. border under the “Secure the Fence Act of 2006” That requires the Homeland Security Secretary to “maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.”
Mayorkas is the second impediment article. “willfully provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to Congress” During testimony before Congress, April 26 and November 15 of last year.
Mayorkas is accused in endangering national security through encouraging illegal immigration. He terminated contracts for border wall construction and ended the Migrant Protection Protocols.
In a recent interview with ABC News before Biden visited the U.S.–Mexico border, Mayorkas indicated that he doesn’t plan to step down from his position following Republicans’ vows to impeach him.
“I’ve got a lot of work to do, and we’re going to do it,” Mayorkas said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We are dealing within a broken immigration system that Congress has failed to repair for decades,” He added. “And there is unanimity with respect to that reality.”
The Epoch Times reached out to DHS for comment.
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