{"id":1983559,"date":"2023-07-26T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-slams-mayorkas-over-handling-of-border-youre-doing-the-bidding-of-the-cartels\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:06:29","slug":"gaetz-slams-mayorkas-over-handling-of-border-youre-doing-the-bidding-of-the-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-slams-mayorkas-over-handling-of-border-youre-doing-the-bidding-of-the-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetz criticizes Mayorkas for aiding cartels at the border."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fgaetz-slams-mayorkas-over-handling-of-border-youre-doing-the-bidding-of-the-cartels%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=1983559&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--><h2>Rep. Matt Gaetz Accuses DHS Secretary of Doing the \u200cBidding of Mexican Drug Cartels<\/h2>\n<p>During a fiery House Judiciary \u2063Committee hearing on the &#8220;Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a> in his criticism of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Gaetz accused Mayorkas of mishandling the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">border crisis<\/a> and even\u2062 suggested that he \u2064was &#8220;doing the \u200bbidding&#8221; of Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida\u2063 Republican expressed his frustration with Mayorkas&#8217;s failure to answer questions and \u2064secure the border, specifically calling out the shortcomings of U.S. Customs and\u2063 Border Protection&#8217;s One app.<\/p>\n<h3>Gaetz\u200b Challenges Mayorkas\u2062 on Mexico&#8217;s Role in Fighting Illegal Immigration<\/h3>\n<p>As the exchange intensified, Gaetz turned his attention to Mexico&#8217;s involvement in\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-are-going-to-take-back-america-trump-holds-1st-rally-of-2022-in-arizona\/\" title=\"\u2018We Are Going to Take Back America\u2019: Trump Holds 1st Rally of 2022 in Arizona\">combating illegal immigration<\/a>. \u200bHe questioned whether Mayorkas believed Mexico\u200d to be an ally in this fight, to which the DHS secretary responded affirmatively.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz seized the opportunity to make a bold statement, \u200bdrawing a connection between the infamous El Chapo trial and alleged\u2062 bribes taken by Mexican presidents. He challenged Mayorkas&#8217;s belief by suggesting that subsequent presidents may have also been offered bribes by cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas \u2063disagreed with Gaetz&#8217;s claims, prompting the\u2063 congressman to level his most serious accusation yet. \u2064Gaetz accused the DHS secretary of essentially working for\u2064 the cartels.<\/p>\n<h3>Gaetz Confronts Mayorkas with Strong Words<\/h3>\n<p>Undeterred by Mayorkas&#8217;s disagreement, Gaetz demanded concrete evidence to support the secretary&#8217;s position. He criticized Mayorkas for merely disagreeing without providing any facts, suggesting\u200c that it revealed the \u200ctrue nature of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz boldly stated that the\u200b Mexican government is under the control of the \u2062cartels and accused Mayorkas of aligning \u200dhimself with\u200b their interests based on his \u200dresponse\u200c during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Mayorkas&#8217;s appointment, Gaetz has been a vocal critic, holding the Biden administration official\u200c responsible for much of the blame regarding \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-condemn-biden-admin-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers condemn Biden admin. over border crisis\">ongoing border crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> for more from \u200dThe Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of aiding Mexican drug cartels and mishandling the border crisis, criticizing his actions during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s oversight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983559","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=1983559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}