Juan Ciscomani: “Let me be clear: Our border is broken and has been for a long time. For 3 years, Americans across the Nation, and…”

“Let me be clear: Our border is broken and has been for a long time. For 3 years, Americans across the Nation, and especially in border communities like mine, are suffering the consequences of this historic crisis every single day. The ineffective open-border policies implemented by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have made our country less safe at a time when the world is most dangerous. Disturbingly, new documents subpoenaed by the Homeland Security Committee uncover the egregious lengths Secretary Mayorkas goes to to ensure inadmissible migrants are let into the United States. The committee found that DHS used over 50 airports, including in my home State of Arizona, to help illegally process more than 400,000 inadmissible migrants into the country through their unlawful mass parole program. Implementing this program was not done for the benefit of the public or for urgent humanitarian need. It was done as an unlawful sleight of hand by Secretary Mayorkas to hide the true scale of the crisis he created from the American people. {time} 1030 The Immigration and Nationality Act clearly states that parole may only be granted on a case-by-case basis for significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian need. These flights are none of these things.…”