Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas relented for the first time while under oath before Congress that the southern border was in a state of “crisis,” an admission that shocked even Republicans.
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) asked Mayorkas about the border during Mayorkas’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since being impeached in February and appeared stunned by his response.
“Mr. Secretary, you dance around calling the crisis at our southern border not only a humanitarian crisis but a crisis,” Hinson said during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday. “If you do not see it as that, why are you deploying our federal air marshals or FAMS to the southern border?”
“Congresswoman, I do understand the challenges at the border. I certainly don’t dance around them, as a matter of fact,” Mayorkas said.
“Would you call it at a crisis at
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