The House Committee on Homeland Security on Friday subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after waiting about a year for the agency to provide requested information about the “record number of inadmissible aliens on the Terrorist Screening Data Set” who have crossed the southern border in between ports of entry.
The subpoena was issued by the committee’s Chairman Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican.
“President Biden and his now-impeached DHS secretary’s refusal to secure our borders or comply with our laws is putting our country in rapidly growing peril,” said Greene, referring the GOP-led House having impeached Mayorkas this past winter over the southern border crisis.
“The Biden administration has utterly failed to safeguard the American people by allowing millions of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the country with limited screening and vetting, including tens of thousands of special interest aliens,” he added.