Speaker Johnson Laces Into Mayorkas As Homeland Security Secretary Visits Border To Tout Record

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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson tore into DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas.

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00:00Yes. Secretary Mayorkas is down at the Tucson border today, touting President Biden's 40% drop in the asylum process. Your thoughts on this?

00:12I could give you 90 minutes on Mayorkas this morning. We impeached him for a reason. I think he's the singularly worst cabinet secretary in the history of the United States.

00:20I think he's lied to Congress. He's lied repeatedly in lots of venues. They engineered the open border. You've heard me say it before.

00:27We documented 64 specific executive actions that Joe Biden and Mayorkas, as his accomplice did, to open that border wide.

00:34And we all know the catastrophe that has come from it. We're going to be dealing with a fallout for this for decades to come.

00:40And even if we are able to begin the largest deportation project, as President Trump has discussed, in the history of our country,

00:48it will be very difficult to find so many of these dangerous people because they have disappeared into the country.

00:54And that's why the FBI directors testified in Congress and said all their red lights are flashing.

00:58We're in a dangerous, dangerous period because we have dangerous people here.

01:02When we went down to Eagle Pass January 3rd this year, we had the largest visit of congressmen down there.

01:08You've heard me talk about this event because it was so stirring to us.

01:11They told us that 70%, estimated 70% of the people who crossed at Eagle Pass illegally were single adult males between the ages of 18 and 49.

01:20These are not huddled masses of families seeking refuge from persecution in their home country.

01:25Most of these people, I mean, most of these people are potentially dangerous folks coming here with ill design.

01:31And I shudder to think that anybody, Mayorkas or anybody in that chain of leadership,

01:37could go to the border and try to pretend like they've done something positive for the country.

01:42They subjected every single one of us to potential danger and violent crime.

01:48Just like the names of these innocent American victims who have already been subjected to this.

01:52For them to try to tout anything as a win is detestable to me. Detestable enough.

01:58Last question.

Speaker Johnson Laces Into Mayorkas As Homeland Security Secretary Visits Border To Tout Record

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