The House Homeland Security Committee released the second interim report of its investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s job performance, alleging the secretary has “emboldened” cartels and criminals.
The report from the committee, led by Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), is titled “DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Has Emboldened Cartels, Criminals, and America’s Enemies” and is 62 pages long. It details that as a result of Mayorkas and President Joe Biden’s border policies, the cartels have seized control of portions of the southwest border and are more emboldened than before.
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“It is, therefore, this Committee’s conclusion that Mayorkas and Biden’s policies have emboldened and enriched the cartels, ceded control of America’s sovereign Southwest border to these organizations, and jeopardized the safety and security of individuals and communities across this country in the process,” the report says.
Through conversations with border security and law enforcement professionals, the committee found that the number of illegal immigrants and drugs moving across the southwest border daily shows the control the cartels have of that area.
The report says that despite their best practices, border security and law enforcement officials are only “mitigating some of the consequences” of the cartels’ control and are being overwhelmed by the border crossings, human smuggling, and drug trafficking happening at the border.
House Republicans launched their investigation into Mayorkas in June to determine whether the secretary had neglected his duty amid the country’s border crisis.
The information the investigation uncovers could be used as evidence to bring forth an impeachment inquiry into Mayorkas, something many conservatives in the House have been calling for.
The first report the committee released at the start of the investigation was a 55-page document outlining seven actions the Department of Homeland Security took that the committee alleged harmed the country. These actions included the construction of the border wall being halted and the administration rescinding former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.
The most recent report is the second of what is expected to be five phases of the investigation. The report detailed how policies have led to higher rates of human trafficking, more illegal and deadly drugs coming across the border, and how they have caused overwhelming disorder in border towns.
This not only wreaked havoc on the border communities and citizens but also the immigrants.
“The cartels’ operations at the border and in communities across the country have meant more crime, more families ripped apart by addiction, and more vulnerable people exploited and abused,” the report reads. “The massive increase in the frequency of these tragedies finds its root in Mayorkas’ willful opening of America’s borders. Meanwhile, the cartels continue to smuggle an unknown number of potential national security threats across the border, some of whom are simply released into the interior.”
This was made possible because of the administration’s policies, the report says. Cartels know that if they seize on people crossing the border, regardless of whether they are captured, they will not be sent back or held in custody long because of the Biden administration’s “catch and release” policy.
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“The facts are indeed clear — the cartels have been the greatest winners from Mayorkas and Biden’s open-borders policies,” the report says. “In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 26, 2023, Mayorkas brazenly claimed that his policies had ‘weakened’ the cartels. That claim does not withstand even cursory scrutiny.”
Now, the committee will move into the next phase of its investigation, focusing on the “various human costs of Mayorkas’ radical agenda,” which stems from the control the cartels have over the country’s southwest border.
