Posted on 10/31/2023 1:29:22 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
During a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas couldn’t answer a question about how many illegal immigrants federal authorities have released into the U.S. interior under the Biden administration.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed Mayorkas on the issue, but the DHS secretary couldn’t provide a number at Tuesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. Illegal immigration at the southern border of the U.S. has surged past 2 million in both fiscal year 2022, the highest year on record, and 2023, according to federal data.
An Inspector General report in September found that DHS lacks the ability to track all illegal immigrants released from their custody into the U.S. interior, partially because of the overwhelming surge at U.S. borders.
“I’ve asked you this in the past, what numbers are represented here? How many people has this administration let in by encountering, processing, dispersing or that come in as a known or an unknown got-away? Approximately, I don’t need an exact number, so what do we got?” Johnson asked Mayorkas.
“Senator, let me say,” Mayorkas responded before being interrupted by Johnson.
“I need numbers. Don’t filibuster me. How many people has this administration let into the country?” Johnson continued.
Mayorkas began speaking before Johnson again interrupted him for not providing a clear number.
“Let me say at the outset that our job would be a lot easier if the broken immigration system … ” Mayorkas responded.
“Mr. Secretary, I want a number. How many people will have you let into this country? I’ll give you the number, it’s about 6 million, about 1.7 million as known got-aways. Now, again, we don’t know who these people are. We just know that they’ve come to this country and that they’re residing somewhere. Where are all these people residing? Where did the 6 million people go?” Johnson asked.
Border Patrol doesn’t have the ability to always collect migrants’ addresses, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t always validate the addresses before they’re released into the country, the inspector general previously found. Between March 2021 and August 2022, Border Patrol collected 981,671 migrant records, but more than 177,000 migrant records “were either missing, invalid for delivery, or not legitimate residential locations.”
Mayorkas began to attempt to answer Johnson again, but still could not provide a direct response.
“Senator, you speak of encounters, and let me share,” Mayorkas said before Johnson interrupted.
“Would you answer my questions? Where did these 6 million people go? Are you keeping track of them? To what extent [do] we have a handle on where are these 6 million people are in America?” Johnson asked.
Mayorkas continued to attempt to answer Johnson’s questions.
“As you well know, when an individual is indeed released, they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings and are subject to removal if they do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States,” the DHS chief said.
“You’re not answering that question. Where do these people reside?” Johnson asked.
He can’t count past 10 million
Mayorkas may be the worst person in any position of public life I have ever seen and that includes Adolf H.
it’s like the debt clock, goes up so fast it’s hard to keep track how many illegals from south and northern borders.
Well. Congress has oversight authority. They also control the budget. What am I missing here?
Is it legal to obfuscate in a Senate hearing? Wish there were some consequences for these lying reprobates.
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He’s been bribed to play dumb and he does it well
When will they get this traitor to country impeached? They have all the evidence they need.
When he went into the “My Family were Holocaust Victims” complete with tears routine, I about kicked my TV in. So is the mass murdering country destroying Zelinsky. So is George Soros. Evil people. Lots of them are Jewish. It’s the height of stupidity to allow people to walk free of their heinous crimes because of their ancestry.
Impeach him. Until then it’s just flapping gums.
Diez milliones.
This Cuban communist knows the answer.
Just imagine - a Cuban communist in charge of homeland security, lets in 10 million illegal aliens, and nothing happens to him, while all the illegal invaders get money, food, phones and a free place to live.
It is like some kind of dystopic novel, but it is our reality.
“Let me say at the outset that our job would be a lot easier if the broken immigration system...
The system was working you and fellow stooges broke it.
It helps when we use the proper terminology, which denies the leftists the distorted narrative. The proper term is ILLEGAL Alien, oe ILLEGAL Immigrant, otherwise they would be following the laws as passed.
Our southern border is out of control because the illegalities going on in our border security.
Well..it’s hard to see what’s going on with your head up your azzholes.
“Broken immigration system.”
BULL CRAP!!! It is unenforced and this smug bastard knows it. As for how many. I would guess at least 5 million a year and probably close to 50 million illegals already here.
I wonder what illegal alien “charity” Mayorkas will infect when he is out of office.
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