The chaos at the border is the Democrat’s Achilles heel, and they know it. So, after making a big show of making travel plans and scheduling witnesses for a field meeting of the Homeland Security Committee In McAllen, Texas, the Democrats abruptly pulled the plug and refused to attend.

The Democrats pretended to be miffed that Republicans were going to politicize the meeting.

“Instead of a fact-finding mission to develop better border security and immigration policies, Republicans are traveling to the border to attack the Administration and try to score political points with their extreme rhetoric – despite having voted against the resources border personnel need,” Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement. “Committee Democrats are in regular contact with Department leadership and stakeholders on the ground and will be taking substantive site visits to the border – including as soon as this week.”

A spokesperson for the committee’s Republican majority disputed that characterization.

“The half-baked argument that Homeland Democrats didn’t confirm their attendance is undermined by the very fact they invited a witness, who is confirmed on our first panel, and also made their travel arrangements,” the spokesperson said. “This move from the Democrats only screams partisan games and shows that they are in fact the ones making this political.”

The star witness for the Republicans was U.S. Border Patrol chief Raúl Ortiz. He contradicted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s numerous assurances that the border is under control. When asked directly if the border was under control, Ortiz responded, “Based upon the definition you have, sir, up there, no.”

This is probably why the Democrats decided to skip the hearing. The White House doesn’t want to give Republicans any more ammunition in their effort to impeach Mayorkas — the most hapless DHS secretary in the 20-year history of that department.




Why do the republicans have to be such big meanies trying to get the democrats to answer questions over the failure at the border?

Meanwhile Mayorkas parties with MSNBC.

https://flipboard.com/topic/texas/dh...%2Ffoxnews.com

Is this guy even a legal citizen of the planet earth? He looks like something out of a sci-fi movie and the only person who lies more than he does is The Child Sniffer himself...

He was hired to lie and he does it well.