Mayorkas just said the immigration system was 'decimated' by the prior administration.
Mayorkas: We are expanding safe and legal pathways, such as the Central American Minors Program, and the Haitian Family Unification Program.
Career criminals are crawling back under their rocks. Yesterday Leahy, today Speir…Wining!
Mayorkas claiming that the 'great majority' of illegals show up at their court appearances.
Grassley: The family of a service member who dies on active duty receives a tax-free payment of $100,000. Under what circumstance do you think it appropriate for an illegal immigrant who broke our laws to receive more money from the government than the family of a fallen service member?
Mayorkas: I must refer you to the Department of Justice.
Mayorkas: We can not remove 1.2 million individuals.
Graham: How many were vetted before they got on the plane. [from Afghanistan]
Mayorkas: Well over 99% were fully screened and vetted before they got on the plane.
Graham: You are aware you are under oath.
Graham: Do you believe the remain in Mexico policy instituted by the Trump Administration is cruel?
Mayorkas: As it was implemented, I do.
Apparently no one in the Biden administration cares about those roughly 10,000 children whose sponsors don't respond to follow-up telephone calls. We don't know what happened to them, good, bad, or indifferent.
Klobuchar: There are a whole lot of kids in other countries that need a loving family, and a lot of Americans that would like to adopt kids.
[let's adopt the world]
Mayorkas: I'd like to not comment on the details.
[case of illegal who lied about his age and murdered man who took him in]
Cruz: How many children have been in the Biden cages, calendar year 2021?
Mayorkas: I respectfully am not familiar with the term 'cages' to what you are referring.
Cruz on fire. Mayorkas squirming.
Mayorkas: They [Afghan refugees] have not all been given interviews.
[goes against standard screening procedures]