Joe Biden and his people have been telling us lies from the start about how they have been dealing with the border crisis, as the situation just keeps getting worse.
But now it looks like Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green just nailed the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a big lie to Congress.
Green was questioning the Chief of the Border Patrol Raul Ortiz on Wednesday when he asked Ortiz if the U.S. had “operational control of our entire border?” “No, sir,” Ortiz said. That of course is the honest and obvious answer, as illegal aliens seem to flood across our border at will.
Then Green defined “operational control” and played a video for Ortiz of Mayorkas testifying to Congress that the U.S. did have operational control of the border. Green then asked Ortiz if Mayorkas was lying.
🚨: Rep. Green asked Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz if the US has operational control of the border.
Ortiz said no.
Green then played a video of DHS Sec. Mayorkas testifying the US has control of the border. Green then asked Ortiz if Mayorkas was lying.
Ortiz wouldn’t answer. pic.twitter.com/scsg7Zafnw
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 15, 2023
Ortiz first ducked answering it, talking about how the goalposts had been moved to “mission advantage.” But Green continued to pursue the question. Ortiz said he didn’t see the rest of the testimony.
Bottom line, as Green noted, Mayorkas was either unacceptable ignorance or “it’s lying.”
The DHS knew that Mayorkas was in trouble after this line of questioning, so they issued a statement to try to clean up the situation.
In response to this line of questioning, a DHS spokesperson sent this statement about what they’re doing despite “inheriting a dismantled immigration system and facing unprecedented migration…”
They also sent Mayorkas’ recent remarks about what a secure border means to him. pic.twitter.com/lvVrMj4WZ4
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 15, 2023
But even that was a lie, as they tried to blame the problem on President Donald Trump who had much better control of the border than Joe Biden. Moreover, Biden undid a lot of what Trump had in place on day one, which is one of the reasons we have this mess.
If you check what Mayorkas said to CNN’s Chris Wallace he says the “goal” is operational control. Does he think that helps to submit that now? Indeed, it shows that he knew what he said to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) during his testimony back in 2022 wasn’t true. That makes his case worse. It’s about time that they truly make the effort to impeach this guy. Unfortunately, with Biden still in office, you aren’t likely to get anyone with any sense in that position.
Mark Green also let loose on the Democrats who refused to send any of their people to the Committee hearing. That shows exactly how seriously the Democrats take dealing with the real crisis at the border that they helped to bring on, including with Joe Biden and his feckless leadership on the issue.
“Now, this was supposed to be a full committee, but, as you can see, the Democrats are not here. They decided to not, to not show, why? Well they said coming here was a political stunt. You tell me taking a hearing to the point of the crisis for a first hand view, or our boycotting a hearing, because you know we’re going to shine a light on the truth? Which of those is of political stunt? I’d, say the political stunt as these empty chairs,” Green said.
“The Democrats also talk about bipartisanship how this committee, how this is supposed to be a bipartisan committee. I guess for them by partisanship is only when you agree exactly with them,” he continued. Now in the Army, when someone didn’t show up, we called them AWOL or absent without leave. Their place of duty is this hearing, because it’s a full hearing and they are not here. They are AWOL.”
Unfortunately, they and Biden are AWOL in terms of any sane policy approach when it comes to the border, as well as so many other policies.
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