{"id":1586321,"date":"2022-08-03T07:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586321"},"modified":"2022-08-03T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:49:01","slug":"dhs-accuses-of-obstructing-internal-probe-as-biden-backtracks-on-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-accuses-of-obstructing-internal-probe-as-biden-backtracks-on-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Accuses of Obstructing Internal Probe as Biden Backtracks on Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdhs-accuses-of-obstructing-internal-probe-as-biden-backtracks-on-border-wall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-05\/GettyImages-1232827327.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=jr70WVfl\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent reversal on building a border wall has created a political boomerang for Democrats just as Republican lawmakers investigate whether his administration is impeding efforts to assess the damage stemming from his relaxation of border security.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>sent a letter\u00a0Friday to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seeking documents and information related to\u00a0a memo DHS allegedly circulated to staff advising how they could withhold documents or systems logins to obstruct an investigation of administration border policies by the department&#8217;s inspector general.<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-center\">\n<\/article>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the growing catastrophe along\u00a0the southern border, DHS&#8217;s obstruction is particularly troubling,&#8221; Comer wrote. &#8220;Rather than committing time\u00a0and resources to deny information to the OIG, DHS should be dedicating resources to protecting the southern border. We write to request documents and communications about DHS&#8217;s\u00a0efforts to deny the DHS OIG access to information needed to conduct its audits and investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner Mark Morgan told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday the allegations are serious and fit a broader pattern of the Biden administration spinning bad news or trying to downplay statistics like the number of migrants found dead near the border or the number of aliens entering the country with prior criminal records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been the least transparent White House\/administration that I&#8217;ve ever been affiliated with in 35 years of serving this country,&#8221; said Morgan, who headed border enforcement under both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said the Biden administration&#8217;s lax border policies are &#8220;jeopardizing every aspect of this nation&#8217;s public health, safety and national security&#8221; and, moreover, &#8220;they&#8217;re lying to the American people about it&#8221; by seeking to thwart legitimate investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember when I was commissioner, in the CBP job, as audits came down &#8230; I was almost proud to participate in those audits, because I was proud of what we were doing to secure the border and save and protect American lives,&#8221; said\u00a0Morgan, now a visiting fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. &#8220;This administration is doing the opposite. And why? Because they know what they&#8217;re doing is absolutely detrimental to this nation&#8217;s public health, safety, national security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Comer&#8217;s team begins investigating the coverup allegations, the White House finds itself on defense after Biden quietly began construction of a partial border wall in Arizona after years of vehement Democratic opposition to Trump&#8217;s efforts to build a barrier.<\/p>\n<p>During his presidential campaign, Biden called Trump&#8217;s wall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/06\/24\/joe-biden-trump-immigration-racist-1377518\">&#8220;a slogan divorced from reality&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and vowed: &#8220;There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. Not another foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likewise referred to border walls as &#8220;immoral&#8221; back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/columns\/eric-zorn\/ct-perspec-zorn-nancy-pelosi-says-border-walls-are-immoral-but-that-s-not-the-conversation-we-need-to-be-having-20190111-story.html\">2019<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is batting away questions about whether Biden&#8217;s new project amounts to hypocrisy, declaring Monday that the president was &#8220;cleaning up the mess the prior administration left behind.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Politcal observers, however, are widely interpreting the turnaround on the wall as a concession to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, facing a tough reelection bid this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the about-face is a tacit admission that border walls can improve security, argues Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s multiple reasons why the wall works,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So [the administration&#8217;s] justification right now \u2014 but it still supports a reason why walls work \u2014 but they&#8217;re actually building the wall, quote, to protect illegal aliens because the areas they are coming across where there&#8217;s no wall &#8230; it&#8217;s dangerous for the migrants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the wall debate rages, House Republicans and their conservative allies are pressing ahead with efforts to improve border security, including plans to crack down on trafficking by cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) introduced the &#8220;Stop The Cartels Act&#8221; in response to the humanitarian crisis fueled by sharp increases in drug and human trafficking across the southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration has exploited our broken border and helped make it worse,&#8221; Davidson said on\u00a0the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/watch-just-news-not-noise-guests-23\">Just the News, Not Noise<\/a>&#8221; TV show on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve exploited our broken immigration system and helped make it worse,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But no one&#8217;s exploited it like the cartels. Just at the end of July, The New York Times had a piece that said under Trump, the cartels were making about 500 million. And so far under Biden, they&#8217;re making about 13 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Davidson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/davidson.house.gov\/press-releases?id=9FF76C88-19CE-4701-AB65-B6B16AB663EB\">website<\/a>, the Stop The Cartels Act would:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>impose\u00a0harsher sanctions on cartels and broaden\u00a0sanctions to include individuals who provide cartels support;<\/li>\n<li>hold\u00a0Mexico accountable for weakening\u00a0intelligence sharing by reducing foreign aid and demanding cooperation with U.S. law enforcement;<\/li>\n<li>require\u00a0DHS to release extensive monthly reports on the status and number of migrants entering the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent reversal on building a border wall has created a political boomerang for Democrats just as Republican lawmakers investigate whether his administration is impeding efforts to assess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1586539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}