GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee will meet with the Yuma Community Food Bank to discuss the impact of illegal immigration on community resources. (House of Representatives Judiciary Committee)

(Border report) — Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee will hold an open-air hearing on border security Thursday afternoon at Yuma City Hall.

The hearing, entitled “The Biden Border Crisis: Part II,” will examine Homeland Security’s activities on the Southwestern Border, according to the commission’s website.

Commission members will hear testimony about the impact of illegal immigration on Yuma communities.

The witness scheduled to testify is Jonathan Lynes of Yuma County Supervisory District 2. Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot. Dr. Robert Trenchell, President and CEO of Yuma Regional Medical Center.

On Thursday morning, committee members visited the Yuma Community Food Bank to discuss the impact of illegal immigration on community resources.

The Commission will hold a hearing at 2:00 pm MST.

Earlier this month, 18 members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including three Democrats, attended a joint field hearing of the Health Subcommittee and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in Weslaco, Texas.

The nearly three-hour hearing focused primarily on fentanyl crossing the United States and Mexico. Republican lawmakers repeatedly linked illegal drugs and illegal immigration, angering three Democrats, a civil rights advocate who testified, and a local lawmaker who was not a member of the committee and was not invited.

The House Oversight Committee held hearings on border security, and two Border Patrol chiefs testified in Washington on February 7.

After visiting the Arizona-Mexico border last week, a Republican delegation led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused the Biden administration of not doing enough to prevent fentanyl smuggling.

Last Friday, House Democratic leaders toured the southern Texas border for the first time, ‘daring’ Republicans to come up with a ‘real solution’ to immigration reform rather than political concerns.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said his first visit to the border left him “enlightened” and called on his colleagues in Washington, D.C., to make an effort to see the U.S. border with Mexico with their own eyes. I advised him to travel.

El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 2 about El Paso’s strategy against immigration along the border in recent months.

The hearings were dubbed “Biden’s Border Crisis – Part 1” and explored border security, national security and the impact of fentanyl on Americans.

Samaniego was invited by Veronica Escobar, Democrat of Texas, USA, to testify at the hearing.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will lead new and returning lawmakers at a “border boot camp” in El Paso on Friday. According to the commission’s website, lawmakers will be briefed on the daily operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, homeland security investigations, and law enforcement partners in Texas “during President Biden’s current border crisis.” increase.

According to Fox News, House Homeland Security Committee will hold its first field hearing on the “Border Crisis” on March 15 in McAllen, Texas.