{"id":805165,"date":"2021-09-23T07:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805165"},"modified":"2021-09-23T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:30:02","slug":"senator-grills-dhs-head-mayorkas-on-data-revealing-scale-of-biden-border-crisis-i-want-them-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-grills-dhs-head-mayorkas-on-data-revealing-scale-of-biden-border-crisis-i-want-them-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Grills DHS Head Mayorkas On Data Revealing Scale Of Biden Border Crisis: \u2018I Want Them Now!\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fsenator-grills-dhs-head-mayorkas-on-data-revealing-scale-of-biden-border-crisis-i-want-them-now%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=805165&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JM-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) grilled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate hearing this week over not providing congressional oversight leaders data from President Joe Biden\u2019s border catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Secretary, of the 1.3 million people that we\u2019ve apprehended, how many people have been returned?\u201d Johnson asked. \u201cHow many people are being detained? And how many people have been dispersed? Now I want some numbers here. So we\u2019ve got 1.3 million people, how many people have been returned? How many people are being detained? How many people have been dispersed to all points around America?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I would be pleased to provide you with data,\u201d Mayorkas responded in refusing to provide any data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them now!\u201d Johnson erupted. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you have that information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I do not have that data before me,\u201d Mayorkas claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d Johnson pressed. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you have that basic information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I want to be accurate in the information\u2026\u201d Mayorkas claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas proceeded to repeatedly dodge the question and did not answer.<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): I\u2019m putting a chart that I\u2019ve been keeping on apprehensions on Southwest Border. Just to give you some quick numbers here, to date this calendar year, there have been almost 1.3 million apprehensions, we\u2019re averaging the last few months 6,700 to 6800 people per day. That\u2019s a large caravan per day being apprehended by Border Patrol. 800 to 1,100 known got-a-ways, which would equate some somewhere over 300,000 getaway is known got-a-ways for the year. If you annualize these figures, been a couple 100,000 people per month, we\u2019ll be up to about 2.1 million apprehensions, add the get-a-ways, 300,000 to 400,000, we\u2019re up to two and a half million people. You have repeatedly stated that our borders are not open, they\u2019re closed. Do you honestly believe that our borders are closed?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, DHS SECRETARY: Senator, I do. And let me let me speak to that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: No, let me ask you a couple questions here. This committee received, it was dated September 11th, but apparently this letter was not received till Thursday, I didn\u2019t find out about it till yesterday, I released it to the public immediately, by recently retired U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott. In this letter, former Chief Scott states, he is sickened by the avoidable and rapid disintegration of what was arguably the most effective border security our nation\u2019s history. And of course, the chart shows it, we\u2019ve pretty well secured the border. We\u2019d stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, we\u2019d stopped the flow of family units, because of the migrant protection protocols and the agreements that President Trump put in place, that the building of the wall, we were serious about border security until your administration took office. You stood before this Committee and said that you would enforce the laws. You have not done that. Let me go on. Chief Scott says to think that well resourced terrorist networks, criminal organizations and hostile nations are not going to do the same, in other words, exploit the open border is naive. Here\u2019s what\u2019s very troubling. He said the Secretary and other political appointees within DHS have provided factually incorrect information to congressional representatives and to the American public. So let me ask you, Mr. Secretary, of the 1.3 million people that we\u2019ve apprehended, how many people have been returned? How many people are being detained? And how many people have been dispersed? Now I want some numbers here. So we\u2019ve got 1.3 million people, how many people have been returned? How many people are being detained? How many people have been dispersed to all points around America? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, I would be pleased to provide you with data. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: I want them now! Why don\u2019t you have that information? Now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, I do not have that data before me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Why not? Why&nbsp;don\u2019t you have that basic information? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, I want to be accurate in the information\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: I\u2019m looking for ballpark figures. Is it about half, have we dispersed about half of that, or we have about 600,000 people we dispersed?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, these are the tools that we employ. We use the Title 42 authority that is the Public Health Authority, empowered by the Centers for Disease Control to expel individuals in light\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: So I\u2019m hearing that you\u2019re not using that to the full extent and that we\u2019ve got 40-50% of people, even apprehended under Title 42 that are not being returned. Is that accurate? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: That is that is actually inaccurate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: \u2026 What is the real figure then?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: If I may say, Senator, we use the Title 42 Authority, the Public Health Authority of the Centers for Disease Control to the fullest extent, we are able to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: So what is the percent that you are returning under Title 42? It\u2019s about 750,000 people, apprehended under Title 42, how many of those individuals have been returned under Title 42?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, I will provide that data to you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: So you\u2019re saying that 40-50% is not accurate? If you know that that\u2019s not accurate. You must have the real number.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Senator, what I said was not accurate was your assertion that we are not using Title 42 Authority to the fullest extent that\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: No, that\u2019s not what I said at all. I said we\u2019re not returning everybody under Title 42. We\u2019re dispersing a number of those individuals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYORKAS: Not for reasons of our limitation of use that we impose on ourselves, but rather because certain of our capacity to return people under Title 42 is constrained by the Mexican authorities of ability to receive them. This is a matter of bilateral and multilateral relationships. We exercise the Title 42 Authority to the fullest extent that we can, we then work with Mexico to assess what its capacity to receive individuals is.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Again you\u2019re talking about the process. I want numbers. I\u2019m gonna expect numbers, by the way, you know, last year in which you didn\u2019t stick around for second round questions, you didn\u2019t come in here in person, I sent you questions for the record, I\u2019ve got no response whatsoever. And you came before this committee, and you committed to responding to congressional oversight. And you have not done so. And according to former chief Scott, you\u2019ve provided factually incorrect information to Congress. So we\u2019re expecting you to up your game as it relates to congressional oversight. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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