11-01-2023, 04:29 PM
Quote:"Are there HSI special agents who are currently at the border having them pulled away from other cases?" Senator Josh Hawley asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a senate hearing on Tuesday.
"Combatting the fight against fentanyl, yes," Mayorkas said. Hawley, however, had spoken to a whistleblower involved in law enforcement at the border who had a different view.
"How many agents are currently at the border having been pulled off their other cases?" Hawley asked.
"To fight the scourge of fentanyl?" Mayorkas said, "I'd be very pleased to provide you with that data."
"That's not what the special agent is alleging, that's not what she said," Hawley continued, bringing receipts. "She said that they're being taken off fentanyl interdiction, off of child exploitation cases, off of their other investigations into criminals to make sandwiches. That's her quote. You're saying this is a lie? That she's wrong?"
Maoyorkas gave a broad statement. "Senator, we have a number of law enforcement priorities."
"Is making sandwiches one of them?" Hawley asked.
"Of course not, Senator."
"Is she wrong?" Hawley asked. Mayorkas refused to answer the question directly, and Hawley asked again if DHS agents are being used to "make sandwiches" and "babysit" illegal immigrants at the US-Mexico border. Nearly 7 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border into the US since Joe Biden took the White House.
Hawley said that his source claimed that 600 agents had been pulled from their jobs in order to "babysit" illegal immigrants.
"We use our personnel to achieve the maximum law enforcement possible," Mayorkas said.
"So you're not going to deny it," Hawley said.
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