U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) puts the responsibility of increased border crime on Biden-Mayorkas policies. His statement made in a recent House Committee on Homeland Security hearing can be seen in a July 20 news release from the committee.
"And here we are today—it’s alive and well, and this Secretary is responsible in my judgment," McCaul said in the hearing. "The rising crime, and the women going into sex trafficking, the unvetted homes that these kids go to and the men go to MS-13. There is a criminal enterprise now, not just in Mexico, and Latin America, but right here in the United States, and it was created by this administration’s policies."
The hearing was to discuss the nation's current situation at the border and the Biden administration’s alleged responsibility for it. The meeting, led by U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of the committee, was part of a larger investigation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has been accused of compromising U.S. security through loose border policies. Specifically, the accusation is that those policies have paved the way for cartels at the southern border to increase their criminal operations.
The release noted a statement from McCaul, in which he directly blames current U.S. policymakers for the increase in security threats at the border. During the hearing, he pointed specifically to Mayorkas, recalling the "Remain in Mexico" border security policy as a direct cause of rising crime rates. McCaul claimed that while he himself was the chairman of the committee and "U.S. Attorney at the Western District of Texas," crime at the border was better controlled, largely due to the Remain in Mexico policy, the end of which ushered in the cartels.
Others in the hearing reportedly agreed with the accusation of Mayorkas, the release said. When asked by McCaul if he believed in the secretary’s culpability, Jaeson Jones, a former captain in the Texas Department of Public Safety, responded, "Yes, I do." Jessica Vaughan, a director at the Center for Immigration Studies, answered in the same tone, saying that the present border situation is a result of "Biden-Mayorkas policies."
