Mayorkas: Individuals who are encountered at the southern border are placed in immigrant enforcement proceedings. Those who pose a public safety threat, a national security threat, a threat to border security, are placed in detention. We have increased our capacity to apply alternatives to detention, and we continue to augment those resources…and so we will apply alternatives to detention.
Mayorkas: We use a virtual platform that we created to address an emergent situation created by the past administration, and that was Camp Matamoras, which had individuals living in squalid conditions, and suffering untold horrors, criminal horrors.
Representative Underwood: In your testimony you stated that the intelligence community assesses that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race, including white supremacists, present the most lethal domestic violent extremist movement in the homeland…what is DHS doing to combat this terrorist threat?
Mayorkas: Not only did I identify this area as a national priority area in the FEMA grant programs, but we created a special section in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to focus on this terrorism related threat.
Representative Underwood: One of my main concerns about disinformation is that foreign adversaries attempt to destabilize our elections by targeting people of color with disinformation campaigns…disinformation is being heavily targeted at Spanish-speaking voters, sparking and fueling conspiracy theories.
Rutherford: In fiscal year '19, ICE deported 359,000 illegal aliens from the interior of our country. In 2020, 185,000. Last year, with the same resources, they only deported 59,000. What's going on?
Mayorkas: I do not believe, and many people in law enforcement do not believe, that public safety is a quantitative metric, but a qualitative one…we have removed more serious criminals that the prior administration did.
Hillary appears to be wearing some kind of gaudy-looking, winged-fairy godmother/witch pin as she speaks at Albright funeral. Not sure what it is.