DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas received a grilling from House Republicans on the chamber's Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over his handling of the border crisis.
, they were the lowest numbers since February 2021. It has led to claims by DHS that its post-Title 42 strategy is working. The strategy includes a historic expansion of the use of humanitarian parole to allow migrants in legally at ports of entry while limiting the ability of migrants who enter illegally to claim asylum.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2022.and have accused the administration of abusing parole, which is defined by Congress as an authority to be used on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian purposes or for significant public benefit.
"We have used our parole authority consistent with the law and consistent with past practices of different administrations," Mayorkas said. "You've taken this app, and you've digitized illegal immigration. And you've scaled it to the moon," Gaetz said."This app that you've got everybody downloading is like the Disney Fast Pass into the country, never to be subject to actual removal, just removal proceedings as you call them.
"The invasion narrative some members push in this hearing room is bigoted, fact-free and dangerous," Nadler said, tying the rhetoric to the 2019 El Paso, Texas, shooting. Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., attends a business meeting prior to a hearing on U.S. southern border security on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, 2023.
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