All 15 Democrats on House committees held last week’s open-air hearings on the crisis at the southern border held in Texas for the express purpose of focusing Congressional and public attention on out-of-control illegal immigration. I boycotted the meeting.
To make matters worse, the March 15 hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee in Far, Texas, saw House Democrats irresponsibly attend immigration-related hearings held at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is the second time in less than a month that I have been rejected.
Three weeks ago, on Feb. 24, all 19 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee similarly skipped a similar hearing in Yuma, Arizona.
Equally irresponsibly, both hearings were largely unreported by the mainstream media.
The kneeling refusal of House Democrats to attend these hearings is nothing short of dereliction of duty. Especially given that it concerns such an important issue as national sovereignty.
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Somewhat provocatively, but not imprecisely, the commission’s Republican majority called the hearing “Failure by Design: Investigating Secretary Mayorcas’ Border Crisis.” That would be President Biden’s ill-fated Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorcas.
On the contrary, despite overwhelming evidence that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants flow across the border each month, Mr. Majorcas said the border was “safe” and that the Department of Homeland Security was “operational control.” continues to claim that that.
The commission’s hearing statement described its purpose as “outlining that the crisis at the southwest border is a direct result of Chief Mayorcas’ failure to enforce our country’s laws.”
This suggests that the pointed criticism of Mr. Mayorcas’ apparently deliberate failure (he deserves to be impeached and removed from office) may have given Democrats the cover they needed to boycott the hearings. But it’s indisputably accurate, borrowing a memorable line from Jack Nicholson’s Marine character Col. Nathan R. Jessup in the 1992 film A Few Good Men: appears to “cannot handle the truth”.
At last week’s hearings, AWOL Democrats missed an opportunity to hear the raw truth about the border crisis from those on the front lines of the invasion. Kinney County, Texas, Sheriff Brad Coe. Chris Cabrera, Vice President of the National Border Security Council. Colonel Stephen C. McCullough, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The Democrats’ indefensible absence raises uncomfortable questions. Are Democrats turning a blind eye to the border crisis because of their reflexive loyalty to the Biden administration and, by extension, Mr. Mayorcas? Isn’t that the point of Congress’ fact-finding trip?
As the pre-Shakespearean poet and playwright John Heywood said more than 475 years ago, no one is more blind than those who cannot see.
So the Democrats should change their party symbol from the donkey. Now it resembles the Missouri mule, but is even more stubborn. No Evil” monkey.
When is anyone in the Republican Party openly demanding answers from the Democrats to these questions about the ongoing flood of illegal immigration? Ten million, twenty-five million, fifty million? Admittedly, we’re wondering: At what point will Democrats finally say “No mass!”?
Similarly, when will the ubiquitous estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, which has been accepted as fact for nearly two decades, be updated with new research?
DHS’s Office of Immigration Statistics claimed in December 2018 that as of January 1, 2015, there were 11.96 million illegal immigrants in the United States. According to 2017 Pew Research Center estimates, the total number of illegal immigrants in the country is 10.5 million.
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But those numbers were about the same as those both DHS and Pew’s Hispanic Center were citing in 2005, over a decade ago. Does anyone really believe there was no net increase in immigration during that time?
In fact, many argued that the actual number of illegal immigrants in the United States was well over 11 million even then. That was long before Biden and Mayorcas effectively opened the floodgates in January 2021.
Extrapolating data from several sources, including DHS itself, the conservative One America News Network in July 2019 estimated the “total number of undocumented aliens in the United States” at 26.43 million. Conservative agitator Ann Coulter puts the number closer to his 30 million in his 2015 book Adios, America.
As a practical matter, however, the actual number of undocumented aliens in the country is not only unknown, but also unknowable, so that any reasonable congressional debate about illegal immigration and what to do about it will not be true. We must begin by honestly assessing the size and scope of of the problem.
Republicans, who hold the majority in the House, also need to impose on the Government Accountability Office (or any other federal agency that can quantify it) not just estimate the number of illegal immigrants in the country, but to count them. I have. Their presence in the country allows state and federal governments to pay for education, health care, incarceration, and more.
