{"id":1887747,"date":"2023-03-15T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-border-chief-in-hot-seat-over-whether-us-mexico-border-is-secure\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:47:19","slug":"biden-border-chief-in-hot-seat-over-whether-us-mexico-border-is-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-border-chief-in-hot-seat-over-whether-us-mexico-border-is-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden border chief in hot seat over whether US-Mexico border is secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbiden-border-chief-in-hot-seat-over-whether-us-mexico-border-is-secure%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=1887747&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-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78889533\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Mexican president says Mexico safer than US\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed that Mexico is safer than the United States. 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Chip Roy (Republican-TX), asking Mayorkas at a previous hearing if there was a border. &#8220;secure.&#8221; Mayorkas stated that it was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You heard the secretary. He said we have operational control. That&#8217;s the definition of operational control,&#8221; Green said this and pointed out a poster board in his direction that contained the legal definition. &#8220;operational control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the definition of the mission you have up, sir, up there, no,&#8221; Ortiz conceded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have operational control?&#8221; Green asked for a second time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"446\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"446\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"375\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"375\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"616\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><source width=\"1060\" height=\"616\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">                 Raul Ortiz.                <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">                 Joel Martinez\/AP                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;No, sir,&#8221; Ortiz said. &#8220;About 10 years ago, we used operational control as a measuring stick of our effectiveness along the Southwest border. My new strategy is geared towards mission advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, Rep. Michael Guest (R. MS) asked Ortiz if the 2,000-mile boundary was safe or not. Ortiz provided a detailed response and said that certain portions of the border land were more secure than others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have nine Southwest border sectors from San Diego to here, South Texas\u00a0\u2014 Rio Grande Valley. Out of the nine Southwest border sectors, I feel like the men and women are doing a phenomenal job in four of them with respect to the amount of flow and the processing that we are encountering on a daily basis,&#8221; Ortiz spoke without disclosing specific locations. &#8220;Five of those Southwest border sectors are experiencing a higher level of flow than we have seen previously. And that creates some unique challenges for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the chief, Border Patrol&#8217;s illegal immigrant apprehensions have declined from almost 8,000 per day in December, which was its highest ever point, to around 4,800 people arrested daily. This decline was due to the Biden administration&#8217;s January decision not to allow illegal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua to be allowed into the United States at the border. Hundreds of thousands from these four countries were previously under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to data supplied to the Border Patrol, February arrests at Border Patrol were the same as January&#8217;s 128,000. <i>Washington Examiner <\/i>A Department of Homeland Security official who is authorized to speak to media.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE WASHINGTON XAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-banner-ad-g\"><\/div>\n<p>Border Patrol still makes 128,000 arrests per month, which is a dramatic increase from the 20,000 to 50.000 made monthly over the past decade. However, it is down significantly from the peak months 2021-2022.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Chris Wallace <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-lndf5JBUxI\">Ask<\/a> Mayorkas explained to Mayorkas late February that he had found the border in a secure condition. Mayorkas stated that the legal definition was based upon whether one person can evade Border Patrol with success.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/border-chief-hot-seat-texas-gop-hearing-mexico\">Biden border chief is in hot seat about whether the US-Mexico border security is secure<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers took full advantage of a rare chance to question the head of the Border Patrol during his first appearance before a House committee and pushed the chief repeatedly to come down hard on his superiors for understating the state of the border. 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