Alejandro Mayorkas
Rep. Rob Menendez says he's "had it" with the partisanship of Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
"Just shoveling the same old s**t and calling it sugar,” a House Democrat said of the GOP's effort to oust Alejandro Mayorkas.
House Republicans are moving to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his failure to manage the U.S.-Mexico border.
The far-right House member's pushy tactics turned the proceedings into absurd political theater.
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“Is there any evidence that Secretary Mayorkas has enslaved anyone?” law professor Frank Bowman flatly said in response to Rep. Morgan Luttrell's claims.
“I’m just a simple attorney general from Oklahoma,” said Genter Drummond when Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) asked if Trump's conduct warranted impeachment.
The MSNBC anchor couldn’t believe an Instagram post from the GOP senator after clashing with the Department of Homeland Security secretary.
"Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor," Alejandro Mayorkas said.
It’s still “too early” to say whether the number of crossings has peaked, said the secretary of Homeland Security who credited the drop to harsher penalties for unlawful entry.
President Joe Biden is hailing Adm. Linda Fagan as new Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the armed forces’ first female service chief.