A Christian family of nine who fled persecution in Germany and moved to the United States in 2008 was stunned when immigration agents told it to prepare for deportation after 15 years of life in America, but remains hopeful that &#8220;God will make a way&#8221; for them to remain in the country they have come to love. 
In a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Wednesday, Uwe Romeike said he and his family, who settled in a small town in Tennessee, were caught off guard when they were told to come in for a meeting with an immigration agent after they just had their annual check-in a few months ago. During that check-in earlier this month, Uwe, his wife Hannelore, and their five oldest children were told to prepare to self-deport, and return in four weeks with their German passports. 
“This came as a surprise. We did not expect anything like this,” Uwe said, adding that the feds have not given them any explanation for the sudden move to deport him and his family. But Uwe, a piano accompanist at Carson-Newman University, said he is trusting God with what happens next.
“We still trust God to make a way for us to stay here. I know it’s kind of impossible, but that’s where we know God can still do the impossible,” Uwe said, adding that if they are forced to go back to Germany, they will face the same type of persecution they fled as they continue to homeschool their two youngest children, such as being fined around $300 a day. 
The attorney representing the Romeikes, Kevin Boden of the <a href="https://hslda.org/post/romeike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Home School Legal Defense Association</a>, told The Daily Wire that it appears Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received new orders on handling the Romeikes, but said it’s unclear where the “change of orders” came from.
“It’s tough to know — is it a new official who came into ICE and is looking at this? Is it the Biden administration? Is it just the individual ICE officer who doesn’t understand this or was there some superior in the bureaucratic process somewhere who just decided they wanted to affect the deportation? I don’t know,” Boden said. “I don’t want to speculate, but there appears to be some change of orders at some point in the chain there.” 
Romeike and his wife moved their five children at the time to the United States after facing fines from the German government for pulling their children out of the public school system. Homeschooling is rarely permitted in Germany and only for medical reasons. When the Romeikes began homeschooling in 2006, the German government levied fines that amounted to around $9,000 and threatened to remove the Romeike children from the care of their parents, WBIR <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/morristown-family-faces-deportation-homeschooling/51-2d3dd498-b8b0-4b4e-86af-e8c33dae0dbb">reported</a>. 
The couple, who had two more children after moving to the United States, were granted permission by an immigration judge to live in the country. After the Obama administration&#8217;s Department of Justice fought the decision, the family took the fight to the courts, which ultimately ruled against them in 2013, arguing that the Romeikes did not prove that they faced persecution in Germany.
While the appeals court judge ruled against the Romeikes’ asylum claims, the family was allowed to remain in the United States indefinitely, and they checked in annually with an immigration agent. 
&#8220;They&#8217;re here with the approval of the United States government, but without permanent residency or citizenship status,&#8221; Boden told WBIR.
The Romeikes were told to prepare for deportation as the Biden administration continues to oversee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-border-numbers-near-all-time-high">record-breaking numbers</a> of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border into the United States. Many of the migrants who enter the country illegally are housed near the border or bused to cities throughout the United States, where they are fed and given rooms at the expense of the taxpayer while they await an immigration hearing. An ICE agent <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/migrants-with-criminal-records-among-those-being-released-in-the-us-ice-agent/">told</a> Fox News last year that some of the illegal immigrants being released into the country have criminal records for misdemeanors such as assault, drunken driving, and drug possession. 
When asked about the sudden decision to deport the Romeike family, an ICE spokesperson told The Daily Wire that each case is appropriately reviewed by the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) conducts removals of individuals without a lawful basis to remain in the United States, including at the order of immigration judges with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). ERO reviews each case as appropriate,” ICE said. 
The father of seven also said his children who have already received their high school diplomas in the United States would be forced to undergo schooling again in Germany since the country wouldn’t recognize their homeschool education, but he remains resolute in keeping his children out of the public school system. Uwe told The Daily Wire that he knows of homeschooling families in Germany who have also had their homes and businesses taken away by the state. 
The Romeike’s attorney said the sudden decision from the federal government to deport the Christian homeschooling family is mind-boggling on multiple levels, but his organization is going to fight for the Romeikes to remain in America and continue living the life they built in rural Tennessee. 
“If you had to think about all the people that you would have to be concerned about in the United States, this is the type of family that you would absolutely welcome into your community,” Boden said.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> is allowing hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Venezuela</a> to stay and work in the U.S. as federal officials insist it would be unsafe for them to return home. 
The Venezuelans, who entered the U.S. illegally, can work and be shielded from deportation after the Department of Homeland Security amended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program to allow individuals who crossed into America after March 2021 and before July 31, 2023, to be eligible for the benefits. According to CBS News, the number of Venezuelans who could become part of the program <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-thousands-legal-status-work-permits-u-s/#textWhile20others20without20legal20statusfrom20the20South20American20country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is around</a> 472,000. 
&#8220;Temporary protected status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a Wednesday statement. &#8220;That is the situation that Venezuelans who arrived here on or before July 31 of this year find themselves in.&#8221;
DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-actions-increase-border#:~:text=Temporary%20Protection%20for%20those%20Already%20in%20the%20US.&amp;text=TPS%20provides%20temporary%20protection%20from,authorization%20for%20eligible%20Venezuelan%20nationals." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the move to extend TPS would result in &#8220;approximately hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals” being eligible for work authorization. 
The move was pushed for by New York City Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a>, who has frequently complained about the flood of foreign nationals arriving in his city.
&#8220;Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to &#8216;Let Them Work,&#8217; so I want to thank President Biden for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status,&#8221; Adams said. 
Illegal crossings at the southern border have remained high throughout the Biden administration and, in recent days, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-border-numbers-near-all-time-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approached record numbers</a>. 
From Friday until Monday, an average of 9,000 immigrants a day <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1704120360235405366" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> crossed the southern border. On Monday alone, more than 9,700 immigrants were <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704123809610002919" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> caught or processed crossing the southern border illegally and through ports of entry.
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Videos from the border show streams of foreign nationals crossing into the U.S., with many coming in through Eagle Pass in Texas, where the Biden administration has <a href="https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1704614936218149361?s=46&amp;t=XGiUuNPiSLBSXsXhdarMAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been accused</a> of cutting down razor wire put up by Texas to deter crossings.
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Large groups beginning to cross illegally again into Eagle Pass, TX this morning. <a href="https://t.co/WNtnDwZXtZ">pic.twitter.com/WNtnDwZXtZ</a>
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Biden <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-actions-increase-border#:~:text=Temporary%20Protection%20for%20those%20Already%20in%20the%20US.&amp;text=TPS%20provides%20temporary%20protection%20from,authorization%20for%20eligible%20Venezuelan%20nationals." target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Wednesday that an additional 800 National Guard troops would be sent to the southern border to help with “logistics and other functions at the border” as Customs and Border Protection struggle to deal with the influx.

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The 2024 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Threat Assessment highlighted numerous aspects of the failed policies from President Joe Biden and his administration.
Released on Thursday, the <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/23_0913_ia_23-333-ia_u_homeland-threat-assessment-2024_508C_V6_13Sep23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assessment</a> focuses on threats to public safety, border and immigration, critical infrastructure, and economic security. The sources of threats ranged from foreign and domestic terrorists to drug cartels to nation-state actors.
Among the foreign terrorist threats to the U.S., groups &#8220;like al-Qa‘ida and ISIS are seeking to rebuild overseas, and they maintain worldwide networks of supporters that could seek to target the Homeland,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Among state actors, we expect Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals in the United States.&#8221;
Intelligence officials have pointed to Afghanistan as a prime area where Islamic terrorists quickly gathered — following Biden&#8217;s disastrous pullout from the country — as they seek to reorganize and plan future attacks against the West.
&#8220;Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, ISIS’s regional branch — ISIS‑Khorasan — has garnered more prominence through a spate of high-casualty attacks overseas and English‑language media releases that aim to globalize the group’s local grievances among Western audiences,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Individuals with terrorism connections are interested in using established travel routes and permissive environments to facilitate access to the United States.&#8221;
DHS said that illicit drugs remained one of the top threats to the U.S. as overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years thanks to the Sinaloa Cartel and the New Generation Jalisco Cartel flooding the streets with fentanyl.
&#8220;These organizations continue to use bribery and violence to grow their smuggling and narcotics production operations in Mexico, and they rely on companies in China to purchase fentanyl precursor chemicals and pill pressing equipment,&#8221; the report said.
These same organizations are also responsible for the historic number of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S. via the southern border, which has largely been open during the Biden administration. The report noted the U.S. northern border has also seen record high illegal crossings under Biden.
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&#8220;As of July, approximately 160 non-US persons in the TSDS attempted to enter the United States via the southern border this year, most of whom were encountered attempting to illegally enter between ports of entry,&#8221; the report said.
Mexico&#8217;s leftist government said early on during the Biden-era that they believed that Biden was &#8220;stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime,&#8221; according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexico-worried-that-biden-is-stoking-illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Reuters.
&#8220;Mexico‑based criminal networks are also involved in sex trafficking, coercing Mexican women and girls into commercial sex across several US jurisdictions,&#8221; the assessment said.
The assessment said that chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats to the Homeland will continue into 2024 but &#8220;deliberate use of such threats against the Homeland will likely be limited.&#8221;
The assessment said that nation-state actors like Russia, Iran, and China continue to represent serious threats to the U.S. through a variety of means, including cyberattacks and spreading mis-, dis-, and malinformation aimed at undermining trust in the West.
The Biden administration was weak in confronting Russia in its first year in office and <a href="https://www.fdd.org/policy-tracker/2023/09/01/biden-administration-foreign-policy-tracker-september-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remains weak</a> in confronting Iran and China.
The assessment notes that each of the three aforementioned nations presents unique threats to the Homeland — with communist China being by far the greatest threat — for the upcoming fiscal year.
Russia:
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<li>&#8220;Malicious cyber activity targeting the United States has increased since the beginning of the Russia‑Ukraine conflict, a trend we expect to continue throughout the duration of the conflict. Pro‑Russia cyber criminal groups, such as Killnet, collaborate to conduct distributed denial‑of‑ service (DDoS) attacks and other potentially disruptive attacks against US government systems and our transportation and healthcare sectors.&#8221;</li>
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Iran:
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<li>&#8220;Iranian government cyber actors continue to employ social engineering tactics, utilize easily accessible scanning and computer hacking tools, and exploit publicly known software and hardware vulnerabilities to conduct cyber espionage against US critical infrastructure entities.&#8221;</li>
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China:
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<li>Adversarial governments, most notably the PRC, are developing other AI technologies that could undermine US cyber defenses, including generative AI programs that support malicious activity such as malware attacks.</li>
<li>Chinese government cyber actors likely will continue to target key critical infrastructure sectors in the United States, including healthcare and public health, financial services, the defense industrial base, government facilities, and communications. Beijing’s expansion of maritime logistics capabilities and the use of commercial Chinese logistics technologies increase the risk of espionage and potential disruption operations at ports.</li>
<li>The PRC likely will continue to use a variety of tools in an attempt to give Chinese firms competitive advantages over the United States, including extensive subsidies for state-owned enterprises and favored domestic firms, as well as barriers against US firms operating in China.</li>
<li>&#8220;China’s control and manipulation of critical supply chains will remain an economic security threat to the Homeland. Beijing has recently introduced export control measures on gallium and germanium—critical inputs for semiconductors and low-carbon energy technologies—giving the PRC the ability to restrict exports of these critical minerals to foreign buyers. The PRC has previously restricted exports of rare earth minerals during bilateral disputes.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Foreign adversaries, primarily the PRC, likely will continue efforts to target and steal sensitive US information, research, and technology. These adversaries almost certainly will continue to use students, researchers, and commercial entities as cover for their efforts to gain access to valuable US information that can damage our competitiveness, result in billions of dollars in lost profits, and transport cutting‑edge technology and research to adversarial military and economic programs.&#8221;</li>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) announced two new policies addressing artificial intelligence (AI) and its first chief AI officer on Thursday, with a special emphasis on preventing bias.
Eric Hysen, also DHS Chief Information Officer (CIO) and co-chair of the DHS Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), will serve as the department’s first chief AI officer. In a <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/14/dhs-announces-new-policies-and-measures-promoting-responsible-use-artificial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, Hysen said that he would ensure the AI usage wouldn’t result in discrimination.
“The policies we are announcing today will ensure that the Department’s use of AI is free from discrimination and in full compliance with the law, ensuring that we retain the public&#8217;s trust,” said Hysen.
The two new policies, “<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/23_0913_mgmt_139-06-acquistion-use-ai-technologies-dhs-components.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acquisition and Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by DHS Components</a>” and “<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/23_0913_mgmt_026-11-use-face-recognition-face-capture-technologies.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Use of Face Recognition and Face Capture Technologies</a>” emphasized the need for AI usage to avoid “inappropriate consideration of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, nationality, medical condition, or disability,” as well as any “unintended bias or disparate impact.”
The first policy, issued last month, focused on AI use generally, as well as its counterpart, Machine Learning (ML). DHS declared it would “strive to minimize inappropriate bias” and discriminatory effects in AI use, relying on civil rights evaluation methods like <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/T6Manual7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparate impact analysis</a>. DHS also pledged to not use AI technology to enable “improper” systemic, indiscriminate, or large-scale monitoring, surveillance, or tracking systems.
Per the Department of Justice (DOJ), disparate impact <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/T6Manual7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avoids</a> that which “perpetuates the repercussions of past discrimination.”
“In a disparate impact case, the investigation focuses on the consequences of the recipient’s practices, rather than the recipient’s intent,” stated the DOJ.
Under this policy, DHS announced the creation of an AI Policy Working Group (AIPWG) to work with the AITF in further development of AI policy and implementation.
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The second policy, issued on 9/11, focused more specifically on face recognition and face capture technologies. DHS declared that its data collection from the technologies wouldn’t be based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, medical condition, or disability in order to “minimize bias and disparate impact.”
DHS further noted that face analysis technology, which relies on an algorithm to estimate an individual’s characteristics as captured on film, wouldn’t be used except when necessary to estimate age.
The policy designated authorities on the use of the two technologies, including the CIO; Under Secretary for Management; Under Secretary for Science and Technology; Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans; Chief Privacy Officer; Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; General Counsel; and the Chief Information Security Officer.
The AITF <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developed</a> these policies.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/23_0420_sec_signed_ai_task_force_memo_508.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> the AITF in April for the purpose of developing departmental policy on using AI. The AITF’s express goals were to enhance the integrity of the supply chain and trade, counter the flow of fentanyl in the U.S. through improved criminal detection, apprehend perpetrators and rescue victims of online child sexual exploitation and abuse, and secure critical infrastructure generally.
Hysen’s counterpart as co-chair, Dimitri Kusnezov, is the DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology. Kusnezov formerly <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-kusnezov-097a9b68/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> as the Department of Energy senior advisor and deputy under secretary for AI and technology. The remainder of the AITF consisted of the heads of all offices and agencies.
Prior to rejoining DHS and co-chairing the AITF, Hysen had a lengthy career under former President Barack Obama, as well as two major Big Tech giants.
Hysen <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erichysen/details/experience/">served</a> on the Biden-Harris Transition Team; led a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erichysen/details/experience/1604183468403/single-media-viewer?type=DOCUMENT&amp;profileId=ACoAAACtDq8BqWGxjtJAgOFSWgwPR8NTMi2mWEE&amp;lipi=urn:li:page:d_flagship3_profile_view_base_position_details;NG5OKGLaRjmeCoCejAymsg==" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint project</a> with the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/penn-biden-center-for-diplomacy-and-global-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement</a> while with the National Conference on Citizenship; led policy strategy for California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Government Operations Agency; directed the Justice &amp; Opportunity Initiative under the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/chan-zuckerberg-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chan Zuckerberg Initiative</a>; served as executive director of DHS Digital Service in the Obama administration; co-founded and managed the Obama White House Digital Service; and led Google’s Civic Engagement initiative to increase voter turnout.
In addition to the AITF and the AIPWG, the Homeland Security Advisory Council and two of its subcommittees are developing AI policy. The Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) has a group of internal stakeholders — dubbed the Responsible Use Group (RUG) — weighing in on AITF projects. Those stakeholders weren’t publicized.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security">Homeland Security</a> Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> complained on Monday of a &#8220;broken immigration system&#8221; when asked to respond to a warning from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams">Eric Adams</a> about the migrant crisis.
CNN showed Mayorkas a clip of Adams, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-adams-on-illegal-aliens-pouring-in-the-city-we-knew-were-about-to-lose">saying last week</a> that the cost of dealing with more than <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/600-23/mayor-adams-new-york-city-has-cared-more-100-000-asylum-seekers-since-last-spring">110,000 asylum seekers</a> in New York City would &#8220;destroy&#8221; the Big Apple — an issue exacerbated by red states <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1699809602643140713">busing migrants</a> to blue cities in an effort to alleviate their border communities and challenge &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies.
&#8220;First and foremost, we&#8217;re dealing with a broken immigration system — a fact about which everyone agrees. It is one of the rare things about which there&#8217;s unanimity of views. And we need Congress to act, number one,&#8221; <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ctmo/date/2023-09-11/segment/04">Mayorkas said</a>.
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&#8220;Number two, within that broken immigration system we are challenged by an unprecedented level of displacement in the western hemisphere of historic proportions,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;We have responded with a model approach that has proven to work, which is to build lawful pathways for individuals to arrive in a safe and orderly way and to deliver consequences for those who don&#8217;t meet them,&#8221; Mayorkas said.
Citing the costs of New York City taking care of migrants — $12 billion over the next three fiscal years — Adams <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsAPUdCLkg">announced</a> over the weekend that he seeks cuts to balance the budget in accordance with law.
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The mayor said his plan was a &#8220;direct result&#8221; of the &#8220;inaction&#8221; in Washington and New York&#8217;s state government, but Adams insisted they could still alleviate the situation by &#8220;paying their fair share and coming up with a decompression strategy that reduces the pressure on New York City so we are not forced to manage this crisis almost entirely on our own.&#8221;
New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/08/30/hochul-to-meet-with-white-house-to-discuss-migrant-influx">told Spectrum News</a> late last month that the White House has committed to &#8220;surge resources&#8221; and send Homeland Security Department officials to Manhattan to help contend with the migrants. In addition, the White House said the Biden administration has made a request to Congress for <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/30/readout-of-white-house-meeting-with-governor-hochul/">$600 million in additional funds</a> for the Shelter and Services Program and federal officials have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/migrant-work-permits.html">reportedly sent out messages</a> to migrants urging eligible individuals to apply for work permits.
&#8220;We are working very closely with the city of New York,&#8221; Mayorkas said during his appearance on CNN. &#8220;We sent an assessment team here that devised approximately 25 recommendations. We are executing on those recommendations. We will address this together.&#8221;

‘Broken’ System: Mayorkas Responds To NYC Mayor’s Siren About Migrant Crisis

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House Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer">James Comer</a> (R-KY) announced on Tuesday that he has subpoenaed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secret Service officials, including DHS Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas">Alejandro Mayorkas</a>, over the alleged obstruction of a congressional inquiry into the criminal investigation of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>.
The subpoenas seek documents and testimony related to how the Biden administration is dealing with <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" data-sk="tooltip_parent">claims</a> that the elder Biden&#8217;s transition team and Secret Service headquarters <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" data-sk="tooltip_parent">were informed</a> the night before investigators planned to interview Hunter Biden in December 2020. As told by an IRS <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-says-fbi-veteran-confirmed-key-whistleblower-claims-from-hunter-biden-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-says-fbi-veteran-confirmed-key-whistleblower-claims-from-hunter-biden-case" data-sk="tooltip_parent">whistleblower</a> and <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" data-sk="tooltip_parent">ex-FBI agent</a>, investigators were then instructed to stand by and ultimately never got permission to proceed.
Comer <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DHS.pdf">sent</a> the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/USSS.pdf">subpoenas</a>, which have deadlines listed for later this month, with <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-9-5-JC-to-USSS-re-Biden.pdf">accompanying</a> <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-9-5-JC-to-DHS-re-Biden.pdf">letters</a> asserting that the DHS Office of Legislative Affairs sought to block Secret Service officials from responding to information requests from multiple House committees about the alleged tip-off. The Secret Service is part of DHS.
“The Department of Justice initiated the Biden family coverup and now DHS under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas is complicit in it. Investigators were never able to interview Hunter Biden during the criminal investigation because Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview,&#8221; Comer said in a statement.
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&#8220;This is just one of many examples of the misconduct and politicization during the Department of Justice’s investigation,&#8221; the chairman added. &#8220;The Oversight Committee – along with the Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees — is seeking interviews with key witnesses, including employees at the Secret Service. The Department of Homeland Security is obstructing our investigation by muzzling the Secret Service from providing a response to Congress. The American people deserve transparency, not obstruction.&#8221;
A Secret Service spokesperson told The Daily Wire that DHS would respond for both entities.
A DHS official refuted the claim that the agency obstructed a response to Congress and insisted that DHS was working to respond to the inquiry through &#8220;standard procedures.&#8221; The official also said Comer&#8217;s subpoenas  were &#8220;entirely without basis.&#8221;
Although Department of Justice leaders have pushed back against claims of politicization and Democrats have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crossfire-erupts-on-airwaves-after-hunter-biden-special-counsel-appointment">pushed back</a> on GOP efforts to conduct their own investigations, Comer insisted in his statement that House Republicans &#8220;will hold the Biden Administration accountable for running interference for the Biden family’s corruption and criminal activity.&#8221;
The subpoena announcement comes nearly a month after Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-statement">granted</a> Delaware&#8217;s U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel status after the collapse of a plea agreement with Hunter Biden involving tax evasion and gun charges.
Beyond the Hunter Biden matter, Republicans have criticized Mayorkas over his handling of U.S. border security, leading to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-biden-impeachment-articles-to-committees">investigations</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas">articles of impeachment</a>.

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Comer Subpoenas DHS And Secret Service Officials Over Alleged Obstruction In Hunter Biden Probe

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a> confirmed this week that it would continue to have about 400 troops stationed at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">southern border</a> as hundreds of thousands continue to cross into the U.S. illegally each month. 
The troops at the border are part of the 1,500 who were sent as foreign nationals surged across the border in the lead-up to the expiration of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allowed Border Protection to turn back illegal immigrants over COVID concerns. 
“On August 24, 2023, the Secretary of Defense approved an extension of up to 400 personnel providing support to Customs and Border Protection on the Southwest border through September 30, 2023,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Devin T. Robinson <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-troops-will-stay-southern-border-sept-30-rcna102891#:~:text=%E2%80%9COn%20August%2024%2C%202023%2C,Col.%20Devin%20T.%20Robinson." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC. 
The Pentagon did send away 1,100 troops who had also been at the border since May, even as crossings have continued to remain elevated. According to recent numbers, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20migrant%20families,previous%20month%20to%20about%20177%2C000." target="_blank" rel="noopener">about</a> 177,000 people were arrested in August 2023 for illegally entering the U.S. 
The Department of Homeland Security thanked the Department of Defense for extending the stay of some of the troops. 
&#8220;DHS appreciates the extension of 400 DOD personnel who are providing support at the southwest border. The support personnel are critical so that CBP agents and officers can get out in the field to securely, safely, and humanely manage the southwest border,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. 
According to new numbers, 91,000 illegal immigrants <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20migrant%20families,previous%20month%20to%20about%20177%2C000." target="_blank" rel="noopener">crossed</a> in a family group, the highest ever. The number is 7,000 more than the previous record, which was set in May 2019. The number of children crossing per day jumped from 270 in July to 377 in August, according to the New York Times. 
On Friday, the HHS Office of Refuge Resettlement (ORR) <a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/icf-uc-fact-sheet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it had over 10,000 children in custody. 
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“While ORR has worked to build up its licensed bed capacity, additional capacity is urgently needed to manage the increasing numbers of unaccompanied children referrals from DHS. In preparation for the potential need for additional beds and to provide services and care that align with child welfare best practices, HHS opened several Influx Care Facilities (I CFs), which offer the full range of services offered in ORR’s network of care,” the office said in a fact sheet. 
The recent figures come as White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-claims-biden-is-stopping-illegal-aliens-from-crossing-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the Biden administration is “stopping the flow at the border.” Jean-Pierre also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-responds-to-aoc-biden-has-done-more-to-secure-border-than-anybody-else" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that Biden has “done more” to secure the border “than anybody else.”
Illegal border crossings have surged under the Biden administration, with an estimated <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/1-5m-gotaways-have-slipped-into-the-us-under-biden-three-times-as-many-as-during-3-years-of-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.5 million illegal immigrant</a> gotaways being recorded since Biden took office in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration. The number of illegal border crossings jumped to a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-border-crossings-fiscal-year-2022-topped-276-million-breaking-rcna53517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record high</a> in fiscal year 2022.
Spencer Lindquist contributed to this report.

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Pentagon To Keep 400 Troops At Border As Illegal Crossings Approached 180,000 In August

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-in-criminal-investigation-into-joe-biden-push-to-interview-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> is reportedly asking Congress to approve a housing program for illegal immigrants at the southern border as part of his $40 billion emergency funding request.
Biden’s plan would provide housing for illegal immigrants where they could come and go as they please while the Department of Homeland Security puts them through an expedited process, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/08/11/biden-migrant-family-detention-new-housing-program-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Officials told the outlet that funding for the housing program — if approved by Congress — would allow the government to get the illegal immigrants through the legal process within three weeks. 
The Biden administration claims a housing program will allow the federal government to keep track of illegal immigrants without placing them in a detention facility and would take some of the burden off overrun migrant shelters near the border. After the administration stopped holding illegal immigrants in detention facilities in 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expanded its use of GPS monitoring and phone calls to check in with illegal immigrants who are seeking asylum after being let go inside the U.S. 
Biden’s proposed housing program would give illegal immigrants the freedom to leave during the day before they would have to check in and stay the night at the housing facility, a DHS official told Axios. 
&#8220;We do not view this as family detention,&#8221; the official said.
The president took heat from the Left earlier this year when he reportedly <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-migrant-families-detention-border-biden-0909546c3984ae439b376d02c40ac7ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered</a> returning to detaining illegal immigrant families, a policy he harshly criticized former President Donald Trump over. The president’s apparent reversal on the issue came at the end of Title 42, a Trump-era public health order that forced illegal immigrants to await their asylum claims in Mexico due to the COVID pandemic. 
Illegal immigration continues to spike under Biden, and he now faces calls from the Right and some on the Left to get the border crisis under control. The Biden administration celebrated a brief dip in illegal immigrant apprehensions in June before a 30% surge in July, The Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/02/texas-mexico-border-arrests-biden-migration-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The slight decrease in arrests in June was a record low under Biden but was still an increase compared to <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numbers</a> seen during the Trump administration. 
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested just under 100,000 illegal immigrants in June before the number spiked to more than 130,000 in July. In the Tucson, Arizona, sector, U.S. agents arrested around 40,000 illegal immigrants in July alone — setting a 15-year record for the sector, according to CBP data. 
Biden&#8217;s $40 billion emergency spending <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zelensky-fires-all-military-enlistment-office-chiefs-over-corruption-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">request</a> includes $4 billion to address the border crisis, which is $20 billion less than he requested be sent to Ukraine, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/10/biden-ukraine-emergency-funds-00110691" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to POLITICO.

Biden Wants To Build Housing For Illegal Immigrants At Border: Report

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homeland Security</a> Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and said that the border was “not” open even as the Biden administration has struggled to stem a surge of illegal crossings.
Mayorkas defended the administration&#8217;s policies during the hearing as he was grilled by Republicans about the state of the border. Since President Joe Biden took office, illegal immigrants have crossed into the U.S. in record numbers, and crossings are <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-5-5-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-biden-took-officehow-is-secretary-mayorkas-still-employed-301658734.html">estimated</a> to exceed at least 5 million. 
&#8220;Our approach to managing the border securely and humanely, even within our fundamentally broken immigration system is working,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/republicans-grill-homeland-security-secretary-at-biden-border-crisis-hearing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Unlawful entries between ports of entry along the southwest border have consistently decreased by more than half compared to the peak before the end of Title 42.&#8221;
After Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) asked him if the border was open, Mayorkas said &#8220;It is not,&#8221; a statement that was disputed by House Republicans.
“The MILLIONS of illegal aliens who have crossed our southern border would disagree! So would Border Patrol agents, border states, border towns,” the House Judiciary GOP Twitter account said. 
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&quot;Is the border open, Mr. Secretary?&quot; &#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJerryNadler</a>
&quot;No, it is not.&quot; -Secretary Mayorkas
The MILLIONS of illegal aliens who have crossed our southern border would disagree! 
So would Border Patrol agents, border states, border towns.. <a href="https://t.co/M44vbjVH4w">pic.twitter.com/M44vbjVH4w</a>
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Mayorkas faced questions from lawmakers about how many illegal immigrants had been released into the U.S. and if there would be a limit on how many illegal immigrants would be released into the country. 
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) noted that the number of people who had been released into the U.S. was equivalent to the population of Nebraska. 
&#8220;You&#8217;ve already released more than 2.1 million illegal immigrants into this country since you took office. That&#8217;s the population the size of the state of Nebraska,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1684212024857841664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hammered Mayorkas over what he called the “Mayorkas doctrine,” as deportations have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deportations-have-dropped-90-percent-with-biden-in-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeted</a> under Biden. 
“The Mayorkas doctrine is this: if you show up at the border and get released into the country, if you don’t commit a specific aggravated felony, which by the way doesn’t include a lot of assault and battery, doesn’t include a lot of domestic violence, but if you’re not one of the people who commit those crimes, you get to stay forever,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1684217743396962304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there</a> have been 1,789,605 southwest land border encounters so far in the fiscal year 2023, which began in October. 
&#8220;I know that today Secretary Mayorkas is going to try to paint a rosy picture of this disastrous mismanagement of our border,&#8221; House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) said. &#8220;But the numbers don&#8217;t lie.&#8221;

Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee

Mayorkas Says Border ‘Is Not’ Open After Record Number Of Illegal Crossings Under Biden

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cartel human smuggling business</a> is booming under President Joe Biden&#8217;s watch. Don&#8217;t take my word for it; listen to his Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy, Blas Nunez-Neto.
On Tuesday, Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/07/25/dhs-deputy-bidens-catch-and-release-grows-cartels-wealth-and-reach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Nunez-Neto recently said, &#8220;We see migrants now routinely paying smuggling organizations vast sums of money — often more than $10,000 to $15,000 — to facilitate their journey to the border.&#8221;
Nunez-Neto added that those payments are now often winding up in the hands of the cartels.
&#8220;This is so lucrative, in fact, that we are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player in not just collecting taxes for people who transit through their territory — which is what we saw historically — but actually moving people and becoming deeply involved in human smuggling, not just in Mexico, but throughout the region,&#8221; he said.
The senior official&#8217;s comments came during an interview with the Migration Policy Insitute.
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Nunez-Neto went on to state that the Biden administration&#8217;s catch-and-release policy, as well as its asylum rules, make the smuggling more profitable. Cartels and other actors can practically guarantee that not only will their so-called clients be allowed to cross into the U.S., but they&#8217;ll soon be able to work in America as well.
Not only is the Biden administration attracting more illegal aliens, but the immigration court backlog is creating a compounding problem, he explained.
&#8220;I think we are seeing the court system essentially become a proxy legal pathway for people to come into the United States and work while they’re here … and it’s leading to these huge backlogs that we are seeing in the courts as well,&#8221; the official said.
Thus far, Biden&#8217;s solutions to this problem have included a new “parole” system that allows migrants who would have otherwise been likely to cross the border illegally to enter the country. Under the new system, individuals seeking to enter the country fill out a smartphone app that serves as their asylum paperwork, without the need for a visa.
The Biden administration will accept more than half a million asylum seekers per year, a recent report said. During the last two years, the administration <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-parole-migrants-us-expansion-biden/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has already allowed</a> at least 541,000 migrants into the country through the parole authority, Daily Wire reporter Mairead Elordi reported last week.
To that extent, Nunez-Neto also said, &#8220;I think in general, our approach has been that we would like to see individuals using safe and orderly pathways and processes to come into the country. &#8230; We think there’s a significant public benefit associated with channeling people into these lawful processes&#8230;&#8221;
Yet, as this author has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-best-way-to-get-order-at-the-border-is-to-close-it-once-and-for-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously observed</a>, the problem is that the Left’s definition of “order” simply means that illegal aliens are “processed” by immigration officials and then released into the country via new “legal” measures — such as the smartphone app.
“Order” to the Democrats does not mean having the necessary physical barriers or manpower necessary at the U.S.-Mexico border to deter entry. Nor does it include enforcing policies that effectively prevent illegal immigrants from entering the nation in the first place.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Migrants wearing “Biden Please Let Us In” tee shirts.

Senior DHS Official: Cartel Smuggling Business Booming Under Biden

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A group of Tennessee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> lawmakers pushed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) on Monday to explain how an illegal immigrant accused of raping multiple children was allowed to stay in the U.S. for two decades.
The Republicans, led by Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a>, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accusing his agency of failing to enforce American immigration laws and contributing to the alleged crimes.
“We write to express our disgust with this administration’s complete failure to secure our border and enforce the rule of law, the effects of which are impacting communities and families across the country,” the <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/7E96A9AB-B823-490E-8B41-F23B8E1390A6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> says.
Blackburn was joined by Reps. Diana Harshbarger, Tim Burchett, Chuck Fleischmann, Scott DesJarlais, Andy Ogles, Mark Green, and John Rose.
The letter referred to the case of Camilo Hurtado Campos, a youth soccer coach and illegal immigrant living in Franklin, Tennessee. Police say they found “disturbing videos and pictures” on documenting the “rapes of at least 10 children” ages 9 to 17 on Campos phone, which he accidentally left at a restaurant, according to <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/07/13/camilo-hurtado-campos-soccer-coach-franklin-tennessee/70409271007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tennessean</a>.
“We fear that, in addition to very recent victims, there could be a decade or more of victims out there,” Franklin Police Department Lt. Charles Warner said last week. More people have since stepped forward and said they were victimized by Campos, who is being held in custody on charges of child rape and sexual exploitation of a minor.
“Perhaps most devastating of all, this horrific abuse was entirely preventable — police confirmed on July 12 that Campos is an illegal immigrant who should not have been in our country in the first place,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter on Monday. “Indeed, if this administration had any interest in enforcing our nation’s laws, he wouldn’t have been.”
Campos had been in trouble with the police before, according to the letter. He had been cited for public intoxication and three instances of driving without a license. Despite his run-ins with law enforcement, police said Campos has lived in the Franklin area for about two decades through multiple administrations.
The lawmakers requested more information from the DHS on Campos’s case, including whether the department was aware of Campos and his immigration status as well as whether the department ever initiated any enforcement actions against him. The GOP letter asks for a response from the secretary by July 24.
“Violence against children is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and Tennesseans deserve to know why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permitted this criminal to live in their community and abuse their children after entering the country illegally,” the letter says.
Mayorkas has received an intense criticism from Republicans for his handling of the U.S. southern border crisis, punctuated by a peak of roughly 10,000 apprehensions a day for a period of time in May. Some members have even pushed for Mayorkas to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas">impeached</a>.

‘Tennesseans Deserve To Know’: GOP Lawmakers Target Mayorkas After Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Child Rape

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Reported immigration numbers suggesting that illegal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immigration</a> at the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">southern border</a> plummeted to the lowest level in over two years in June are misleading, according to a former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) official.
Border Patrol agents recorded roughly 100,000 apprehensions of illegal immigrants between ports of entry along the U.S. southern border during the month of June, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-us-mexico-border-down-in-june-stricter-asylum-rules/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a> reported this week. That total is a steep drop from the roughly 169,000 apprehensions recorded the month prior in May.
That drop-off is largely due to lax parole policies that encourage immigrants to walk through ports of entry, rather than between the ports, according to Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation. The number also does not take into account known and unknown gotaways that get past border security into the interior of the U.S. without arrest.
The reported numbers “are deceitful. The number of illegal and inadmissible aliens coming into the country is still just as high, but the administration is using a shell game and sending people through ports of entry instead of between ports of entry, and then declaring that an improvement on the border,” Ries, a former acting deputy chief of staff at DHS, told The Daily Wire.
“We know the numbers are about the same because when you look at nationwide CBP encounters, which includes numbers at the ports of entry, that number has steadily risen,” she said.
The numbers reported by CBS News are preliminary and have not yet been officially released to the public. Current numbers available on the DHS website show the number of immigrants processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations, which handles processing of migrants at ports of entry, has steadily risen over the course of Biden’s term.
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The preliminary Border Patrol numbers reported by CBS News do not include immigrants that appear at the ports of entry and are processed through the Office of Field Operations.
The Biden administration has touted the use of stiffer immigration rules as well as parole programs that accept tens of thousands of immigrants from certain countries to ease approval to enter the United States. That various parole pathways are the main drivers of the change in the Biden administration’s counting of illegal immigration, according to Ries.
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The port parole programs have been steadily accepting more immigrants, driving immigrants to ports of entry rather than attempting to cross between ports.
“They’ve been increasing the daily number of appointments CBP takes at the ports,” Ries said. “They’re about to increase it again. And when you do the math of those programs and add those back to the numbers of people crossing between the courts, you&#8217;re still at around 200,000 encounters a month, and that’s the number that the administration simply doesn’t want out there.”

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