DEPORT JOE BIDEN AND HIS CUBAN GAMER LAWYER TO GITMO!
Hawley to Mayorkas: 'Rather Than Building a Wall...You Have Built Ticketmaster for Illegal Immigrants'
(CNSNews.com) - The record pace of illegal immigration during the Biden administration was one of the main topics Tuesday at a contentious hearing featuring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) grilled Mayorkas about a new mobile phone app called CBP One, introduced in January, that "allows, and I quote, ‘noncitizens without appropriate documentation for admission to schedule an appointment to come to the border,'" Hawley said.
Hawley, reading from a Homeland Security fact sheet, noted that foreigners can now go on their phones and schedule a time to come to one of eight U.S. ports of entry and then be admitted.
"It's like a concierge service for illegal immigrants," Hawley said, accusing Mayorkas of building "Ticketmaster for illegal immigrants."
Mayorkas, prone to filibuster, said Hawley was "mischaracterizing" the app:
"There is a process for individuals who claim an exception to the Title 42 expulsion authority, because of an acute medical condition...an urgent humanitarian reason,” Mayorkas said.
“So instead of them coming in-between the ports of entry to claim that urgent medical condition, that extraordinarily acute humanitarian cause, we allow a limited number to arrive at our ports of entry and seek the emergency relief that they need."
"Now let's talk about what actually happens when they come to the border," Hawley said:
"It's interesting. You characterized this, when you rolled it out, as an application for applying for asylum. But nowhere on the app do you actually require the illegal migrants to apply for asylum or to claim asylum or anything about asylum.
"And, in fact, when they then get to the border, you don't ask them questions, you don't do interviews, you just release them.
“Here's the ‘Texas Monthly,’ not a notable conservative outlet: It reports, and I quote: 'At no point does the app ask users, are you seeking asylum? Those arriving for the CBP One appointments are given no interviews, asked no questions about vulnerabilities that they may or may not have listed on the app, or about why they're coming to the United States. They're simply released into the country.’
"So rather than building a wall, Mr. Secretary, you have built TicketMaster for illegal immigrants."
Mayorkas dodged questions, including: Is that happening? Are they given interviews?"
Mayorkas finally said that "tens of thousands" of people have "sought to make an appointment" at ports of entry through the CBP One app. Individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua who seek parole via the phone app "are screened and vetted before they arrive at the border--" Mayorkas started to say.
Hawley interrupted, noting that those individuals simply go on the phone to reserve a time and are not asked about anything.
Quoting again from the "Texas Monthly," Hawley noted that even immigration advocates are amazed that the new program doesn't require undocumented immigrants with reservations to make asylum claims, while those trying to cross without using the app are still required to do so.
"What's confusing is, why anybody would think that an app like this, to allow illegal immigrants to literally reserve a time to come to the border and then be ushered in without an interview, without follow-up, without tracking -- is stunning! It's absolutely stunning," Hawley said.
Finally, Hawley asked Mayorkas about a group of Chinese nationals that recently crossed illegally into the United States.
"The number of Chinese nationals encountered at our southern border has increased significantly," Mayorkas agreed. But he could not say precisely how much that number has increased, nor could he -- or would he -- say if any of the Chinese nationals arriving here have been found to be members of the Chinese Communist Party.
"If indeed they are determined to be a national security threat, or a threat to public safety, we detain them, pending their removal proceeding," Mayorkas said.
Mayorkas also couldn't or wouldn't say how many of the Chinese nationals may have been detained. "I don't have awareness of that particular group of individuals," he said.
"So you're not familiar with this incident that was widely reported on at the southern border?" Hawley asked. "Don't you think it's strange that we have busloads of Chinese ntionals coming across our southern border...from a hostile country? I'm asking you if they're members of the Chinese Communist Party, and you don't know, apparently, you won't say."
"We are very focused on all things with respect to the People's Republic of China--" Mayorkas started to say.
"But you don't know any of the details!" Hawley interrupted. "I plead exhaustion, Mr. Secretary. You have exhausted me, you have exhausted this pane, you've exhausted the patience of the American people. You should resign."
MAYORKAS AND BIDEN HAVE AMERICAN JOBS, VISAS, WELFARE AND VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS WAITING ON THE AMERICAN SIDE OF THE NARCOMEX BORDER!
DHS Chief Mayorkas: Not ‘Sound Policy’ to Make Border Crossers Seek Asylum in Mexico Rather than U.S.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says it is not “sound policy” or within the “unilateral authority” of the United States to require border crossers to seek asylum in Mexico.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) pressed Mayorkas about the Biden administration’s inability to impose a “Safe Third Country” policy similar to the one the U.S. has with Canada.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). (Anna Rose Layden/Pool Photo via AP)
“If you do the Safe Third Country policy, that’ll solve half of your problem right there,” Kennedy told Mayorkas. “And you’re not denying anybody asylum.”
At the northern border, for example, the Safe Third Country policy ensures that border crossers arriving in the U.S. from Canada must first seek asylum in Canada before doing so in the U.S.
Kennedy said there is no reason why the U.S. cannot impose an identical policy at the southern border where border crossers must first seek asylum in Mexico, which has a robust asylum system, before claiming asylum in the U.S.
“I also do not think that is sound policy that we should shut down our entire asylum system,” Mayorkas said of the proposal.
“I didn’t say shut down our entire asylum system,” Kennedy responded:
I said ‘Safe Third Country.’ All you have to do, Mr. Secretary, if you’re really serious … is adopt a policy that says — we’re not seeking anyone’s agreement we don’t have to — if you’re coming from another country and you come through, let’s say Mexico, and you’re seeking asylum, you have to seek it in Mexico or the other first safe country or you can’t come in, period, done, end of story. Why don’t you do that? [Emphasis added]
Mayorkas claimed that even if he supported a Safe Third Country policy with Mexico, the U.S. does not “have the unilateral authority” to impose such a policy. Kennedy, though, said other nations have such policies, rhetorically asking “Have you tried sneaking into China?”
With a Safe Third Country policy, Kennedy said the U.S. would be saying to the world’s migrants that “‘We respect your right to seek political asylum but you’re cherry-picking. Do it in Mexico first.'”
Since Biden took office, 4.5 million border crossers and illegal aliens have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border with 1.5 million having successfully crossed the border, undetected by federal immigration officials.
Meanwhile, through an expansive Catch and Release network, the Biden administration has released 1.7 million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities from February 2021 to January 2023.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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