Border security is national security, and the Biden Administration’s self-created border crisis is one of the greatest threats facing our country. Over 11 million illegal immigrants have entered our country since Biden took office and millions more known and unknown “gotaways” have entered the country. Among the ranks crossing our southwest borders are known terrorists, smugglers, and gang members. The cartels have taken advantage of this to expand human trafficking operations and flood the United States with fentanyl, and other devastating substances.
As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I have jurisdiction over the enforcement of our immigration laws and helped the House of Representatives pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, the strongest border security bill in American history. Ending the invasion of our country by people who wish to do us harm is among my top priorities in Congress.
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This op-ed was first published in the Daily Caller on November 8, 2023. Click here to view it on their site.
President Biden has made clear that he believes climate change is the most pressing national security threat facing our nation, and Secretary Mayorkas has followed suit; earlier this year his department published the DHS Climate Literacy Strategy, which is supposed to educate employees on the threats climate change poses to the DHS mission. Meanwhile, the DHS mission is rapidly eroding through our porous border and the department's anti-free speech actions.
Earlier this year, Secretary Mayorkas, the chief architect behind the border crisis, advertised his visit to a Polish-Ukraine border town to oversee the use of U.S. technology to facilitate the safe passage of people over the border and to greet border patrol offices. If only Mayorkas would pay the same amount of attention to our own borders. Until he fixes the disaster and crisis that he created he should not be taking taxpayer funded trips abroad.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman issued the following statement on the impending government shutdown:
The Biden Administration's double standards continue to surface at immense harm to Americans far and wide. Instead of acting to secure our southern border and protect our communities, they are now forcing low-income communities across the nation – and even in New York City – to host thousands of illegal immigrants on National Park Service property without consultation or recourse.
Pay for performance is a popular concept, where those who do their jobs well get raises while those who don't have their pay cut.
That’s the model U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, said she supports for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his poor handling of the southern border crisis. If she had her way, his annual salary would be slashed to $1.
1/21/2021, Forty-Six, 5.6 million.
No, the line above isn’t a spy code or the punch line to a Tonight Show joke — the line instead exposes everything we need to know about border security and our sovereign integrity.
Since Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on 1/21/2021, 5.6 million illegal immigrants have crossed into America through both our northern and southern borders.