House Oversight Committee to hold border hearing in early February

Your House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on the Biden administration’s border policies in early February, beginning what is anticipated to be a series of hearings on the problem in the middle of prevalent GOP criticism.

Kentucky Republican Politician Rep. James Comer, who now acts as the committee’s chair, has actually been an intense critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the US-Mexico border. The hearing will occur the week of February 6.

In a letter directed to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and gotten by CNN, Comer asked for files and info about the department’s policies, the expenses to react to an increase of migrants at the border, and possible nationwide security dangers.

” The American individuals and their chosen agents should understand DHS’s function in the humanitarian and nationwide security crisis along the U.S. southern border,” the letter states.

Amongst the files asked for by February 2 are: interactions about the number of individuals have actually been launched into the United States from DHS custody who crossed the border unlawfully on or after January 20, 2021; correspondence on any strategies to protect the border; and interactions associated with ending the Trump-era “Stay in Mexico” policy, to name a few asks.

Republican politicians have actually consistently knocked the administration over the handling of the US-Mexico border, arguing that the historical variety of arrests is proof of President Joe Biden’s policies not working. However the administration is mainly utilizing the very same procedures as the Trump administration and continues to lean on a Covid-era border constraint that permits border authorities to turn away migrants experienced at the United States southern border.

The administration, nevertheless, deals with unmatched motion throughout the Western hemisphere that has actually added to an increase of migrants at the border, consisting of more individuals from various nations, such as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The United States is mainly disallowed from deporting migrants to Cuba and Venezuela, providing a distinct set of obstacles for DHS.

The committee welcomed senior Border Patrol authorities who manage specific areas of the border, consisting of the Del Rio sector and Rio Grande Valley sector, to affirm.