‘You Smirked And Said Yes’: Chip Roy Blasts Mayorkas After Border Patrol Chief Admits No ‘Operational Control’ Of Border
United States Customs and Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz contradicted Alejandro Mayorkas (History Secretary), by telling a House Committee that the federal government doesn’t have. “operational control” Chip Roy, representative for the southern border, recalls Mayorkas’ patronizing tone when Roy was asked the same question.
Rep. Mark Green (R. TN), the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee was asked. “Does THS have operation control of our entire border,” Ortiz answered succinctly, “No, sir.” Green then pointed out that the U.S. Code actually defines operational control. “The prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.”
Roy sent a tweet to Mayorkas. “I recall I asked you that question under oath… and you smirked and said yes.”
CC: @SecMayorkas (I recall I asked you that question under oath… and you smirked and said “yes.”) https://t.co/ISTc4ySq6W
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) March 16, 2023
Roy was referring to his brutal grilling of Mayorkas in April 2022.
“There have been over one million plus individuals put into proceedings or released into the United States on your watch,” Roy started. “I’ve asked multiple Border Patrol personnel, not the union, mind you, that if we double, triple, quadruple that CPB budget, would that one million release go down, and they categorically said no, it would go up. Do you agree? Yes or no.”
“The only plan that you offered is to process aliens faster and encourage more to come,” Roy continued. “We know that to be true. I know it’s true, you know it’s true, cartels know it’s true and people around the world know it’s true and that’s why people are coming.”
“That’s false,” Mayorkas declared.
“It’s not false,” Roy retorted. “Will you testify under oath right now, do we have operational control, yes or no.”
“Yes, we do,” Mayorkas has the answer.
Roy then cited U.S. Code definitions of operational control. Mayorkas said that his predecessors from 2019 and 2020 would have agreed to operational control.
Roy was furious. “The Secretary would at least have had a basis for saying we had some sort of control of the border. But the fact is that we currently have people flowing across the border including dangerous narcotics and dangerous members of terrorists which your own agency sent a letter to my office after eight months, we were sent a letter saying there were 42 people on the terrorist watch list that are in the United States.”
“As you just said to Mr. (Jim) Jordan, you don’t even know where the hell they are! That’s what you’re saying is operational control?” Roy was furious.
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