Yuma, Arizona (border report) — Yuma City Hall invited members of the House Judiciary Committee for a forum on immigration and borders.

The event was called “Biden Border Crisis: Part II.”

It has pledged to investigate Homeland Security’s activities on the southwest border.

Commission members also heard testimony from witnesses, including the Yuma County Sheriff, the Yuma County Supervisor, and the CEO of the Yuma Regional Medical Center. All are Republicans.

They spent the night before, visiting spots along Arizona’s southern border and talking to border patrol agents.

As the forum kicked off Thursday afternoon, Rep. Jim Jordan slammed President Joe Biden and the Democrats for not doing enough to curtail what he called a “crisis,” which quickly turned into a session of accusations. It has been changed.

“The Democratic Party’s open-border policy has caused this crisis. Instead of choosing to do something to solve it, they call it a stunt and want to play a political game,” Jordan said. thinking.

Jordan, who represents Ohio, said no Democrats had been invited to be involved in the fact-finding mission.

“We are here to hear real people outside of Washington, D.C., and the Democrats seem to believe that the solution can only come from the Washington bureaucracy, and we believe it will come from the American people.” They’re accusing us of a political grandstand because they seem to believe that,” Jordan said.

But Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, whose constituency occupies most of the Arizona-Mexico border, including southwestern Arizona, told Border Report he was never invited to attend.

Grijalva is not a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

“If they want to get serious, sit back, because many of us are ready to move in the direction of dealing with the crisis,” Grijalva said. “Spitting out the same misinformation and lies that are part of the rhetoric has nothing to do with policy. and what they see.”