{"id":2003874,"date":"2023-08-17T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-official-blasts-house-gop-for-ordering-mayorkas-to-testify-a-seventh-time-this-year\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:26:17","slug":"dhs-official-blasts-house-gop-for-ordering-mayorkas-to-testify-a-seventh-time-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-official-blasts-house-gop-for-ordering-mayorkas-to-testify-a-seventh-time-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS official criticizes House GOP for demanding Mayorkas testify again, seventh time this year."},"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\">28<\/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-official-blasts-house-gop-for-ordering-mayorkas-to-testify-a-seventh-time-this-year%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=2003874&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>The Department of Homeland Security Faces Congressional Scrutiny<\/h2>\n<p>The House \u200cHomeland \u2063Security Committee has called for DHS Secretary Alejandro\u2063 Mayorkas to testify before Congress for a seventh time\u2062 this \u200byear. The committee \u200chas been conducting a thorough\u200b investigation into Mayorkas and his policies since January 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Committee&#8217;s Request for Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>Chairman Mark\u2064 Green (R-TN) sent Mayorkas a letter summoning him to appear on Capitol Hill\u2062 in October for a hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">border security<\/a>. The \u200bcommittee aims to examine the\u200c actions and policies\u200b implemented since January 2021 \u200band their impacts on the border and throughout the interior of the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DHS has questioned the need for another appearance \u200dby \u2063Mayorkas, considering he has already testified six times in the past six months. However, the committee believes that Mayorkas&#8217; testimony will provide transparency and accountability to the American public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>DHS Response<\/h3>\n<p>A DHS official authorized to speak with the press \u2064defended Mayorkas&#8217; actions and highlighted\u2064 the department&#8217;s accomplishments under his leadership. The official emphasized the reduction of illegal immigration, the seizure of unprecedented amounts of \u2064fentanyl, countering threats from the Chinese government, \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-official-blasts-house-gop-for-ordering-mayorkas-to-testify-a-seventh-time-this-year\/\" title=\"DHS official criticizes House GOP for demanding Mayorkas testify again, seventh time this year.\">disaster\u2063 recovery efforts<\/a>, and protection against\u200c cyberattacks, terrorism, and targeted \u200bviolence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DHS has been cooperating with Congress, providing numerous\u200c witnesses, documents, and\u200c briefings. Since January, \u200dthey have responded to over 1,400 congressional letters and participated \u2063in \u200bmore than \u206330 hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The House Republicans&#8217; investigation into Mayorkas aims to determine if he neglected his\u2063 duties during \u2064the border\u200d crisis. The committee&#8217;s findings could potentially lead to an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Committee&#8217;s \u200bFindings<\/h3>\n<p>The committee&#8217;s report outlined\u200c several\u2063 actions taken by Mayorkas that they believe have\u200c harmed the United States. These actions include the cessation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-grant-funds-for-environmental-protection-in-trump-border-wall-case\/\" title=\"Biden Admin to Fund Environmental Protection in Trump Border Wall Dispute\">border \u200cwall construction<\/a>, the\u2064 rescission of &#8220;Remain in\u2064 Mexico&#8221; asylum protocols, and the termination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-texas-judge-blocks-bidens-deportation-freeze\/\" title=\"Federal Texas judge blocks Biden\u2019s deportation freeze\">asylum cooperative agreements<\/a>\u2064 with Central American countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the ongoing scrutiny, the DHS official \u200burges Congress\u2062 to\u2064 work together to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/\" title=\"Democrats Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal\">broken immigration system<\/a> \u2064and ensure\u2064 the safety of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Homeland Security Committee&#8217;s request for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to testify before Congress for the seventh time this year was met with skepticism by the Department of Homeland Security. Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) summoned Mayorkas to Capitol Hill in a letter, concluding their lengthy investigation into the Cabinet official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003875,"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-2003874","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\/2003874","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=2003874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}