Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified to Congress on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border under President Joe Biden, a claim that is directly at odds with a statement from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Ortiz made the remarks during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in McAllen, Texas, in response to a question from Chairman Mark Green about security on the U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;Does DHS have operational control of our entire border?&#8221; Green asked.
&#8220;No sir,&#8221; Ortiz responded.
Behind Green was a poster board that showed that &#8220;operational control,&#8221; as defined by U.S. law, is &#8220;the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics and other contraband.&#8221;
Green then played a video during the hearing showing Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) question Mayorkas last year over whether the U.S. had operational control of the southern border. &#8220;Yes, we do,&#8221; Mayorkas claimed. &#8220;Yes, we do.&#8221;
Green then asked Ortiz whether he thought Mayorkas was lying, to which Ortiz responded by saying that operational control used to be how officials measured whether or not they were being successful. He said that now their new strategy was &#8220;geared towards mission advantage.&#8221;
Ortiz again confirmed that DHS does not have operational control of the southern border, but, when pressed over whether Mayorkas was lying, Ortiz politely tried to sidestep the question in an apparent effort to not say anything negative about his boss.
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🚨🚨: Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz just told <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMarkGreen</a> that DHS *does not* have operational control of the southern border. 
This is huge, because Secretary Mayorkas recently said DHS did have operational control. Huge admission. <a href="https://t.co/rDezfonqST">pic.twitter.com/rDezfonqST</a>
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The hearing comes as the administration has seen a historic flood of millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the U.S. under its watch which is largely occurring because Biden’s policies are acting as magnets for the migrants and cartel smugglers.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evolution.html">reported</a> last year that the Mexican drug cartels went from making $500 million a year from human smuggling in 2018 to making $13 billion from human smuggling in 2022, a 2,500% increase.

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Ken Cuccinelli, who served as Acting Deputy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security">Secretary of Homeland Security</a> in the Trump administration, has launched a PAC urging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to enter the 2024 presidential race.
Cuccinelli also served in the Trump administration as Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
“I have been speaking to many grassroots conservative activists around the country who are very enthusiastic for Governor DeSantis to run for President in 2024,” Cuccinelli said in a statement after launching his Never Back Down PAC,  “The energy is there, grassroots conservatives see the Governor as a leader and a fighter with a winning conservative track record who will lead the Republican Party to victory in 2024. Based on those conversations, I am most confident that we will build an unmatched grassroots political army for Governor DeSantis to help carry him to the White House.”
 “Governor DeSantis has a proven record defending freedom, defending parental rights, defending the unborn, defending our children,” said Cuccinelli, adding, “America’s future is Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis doesn’t just talk; he acts, but most of all he never backs down. Governor DeSantis, today I’m asking you to run for President. You’ve had our back now we will have yours.“
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Today I’m launching Never Back Down PAC <a href="https://twitter.com/NvrBackDown24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Nvrbackdown24</a> to encourage <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovRonDeSantis</a> to run for President in 2024 🇺🇸
The energy is real. Grassroots conservatives see that Governor DeSantis is a proven leader who can win in 2024. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverBackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NeverBackDown</a><a href="https://t.co/1VKNweKgq5">https://t.co/1VKNweKgq5</a> <a href="https://t.co/OaKq1XJrKr">pic.twitter.com/OaKq1XJrKr</a>
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Cuccinelli has always expressed blunt views regarding immigration, once paraphrasing the words on the Statue  of Liberty by saying, &#8220;Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”
In 2019, the Montgomery County Federation of Republican Women in Maryland issued a statement attacking Montgomery County Council for their attitude about the series of rapes in their area, <a href="https://www.mymcmedia.org/council-rape-statement-attacks-trump-neo-nazis/">writing</a>, “They chose to describe Montgomery County residents and all those who voiced a justifiable and sincere outrage over these reported crimes, as ‘Neo-Nazi sympathizers’ which only foments hate and division in the county, in order to deflect away from their failure as our elected officials.”
The Trump White House tweeted, “Last month, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich ordered the county&#8217;s agencies not to cooperate with ICE—and protect criminals instead. Since July 25, 7 illegal aliens protected by the ‘sanctuary’ county have been arrested for rape and sexual assaults.”
The Montgomery County Council in Maryland then accused Cuccinelli and the White House of spreading inaccurate information regarding their criminal justice system and its process.
Cuccinelli fired back at the Montgomery County Council, challenging Montgomery County Council county executive Marc Elrich to a debate as he <a href="https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1170024214084161541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1170024214084161541%7Ctwgr%5Ec32134189daed54d3669b2dfce6cd657ca7ef77e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-immigration-chief-cuccinelli-challenges-maryland-official-to-debate-over-sanctuary-policy">tweeted</a>, “Sanctuary County, Montgomery County, MD cannot debate the failure of its sanctuary policies on the merits (7 violent assaults, rape etc, incl child victims in ~1 month), so they resort to ad hominem attacks using Nazi implications – arguments out of bounds in civil society. If MontCo Chairman Elrich thinks the sanctuary policy they are so proud of is so good, I challenge him to a debate on the subject.”
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cuccinelli-fires-back-county-defending-its-hank-berrien/">Cuccinelli Fires Back At County Defending Its Sanctuary Policies After Assaults By Illegal Immigrants</a>

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The Biden administration is reportedly considering resurrecting stiffer regulations on families crossing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegally</a> into the U.S. after President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> scrapped similar policies over a year ago.
Biden officials are debating whether or not to revive family detainment policies as the administration prepares to end Title 42, a Trump-era health order that has allowed U.S. Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants at the border, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/us/politics/biden-immigration-family-detention.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. Biden scrapped family detainment policies in 2021 as part of an effort to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/12/16/biden-ends-migrant-family-detention-border-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">build</a> an immigration system that is “orderly, safe and humane.”
Since taking office, Biden has overseen an unprecedented immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border. Illegal immigration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-shatters-all-time-record-for-number-of-illegal-alien-encounters-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surged</a> to an all-time high, and the administration fears that the numbers could worsen after Title 42 expires on May 11.
Bringing back family detainment is one of the proposals officials have floated for tightening border security despite the administration’s previous position that the practice was inhumane and harmed illegal immigrant children. Officials have proposed limiting the time a family can be detained to two weeks, or setting no limits at all, according to the Times.
No final decision has been made on reviving family deportation, according to the Times.
A decision to revive the policy would be a reversal for Biden, who <a href="https://joebiden.com/immigration/">campaigned</a> on ending long detainments or not detaining children at all.
Since ending family detainment, the Biden administration has been releasing families into the interior of the United States with scheduled court dates to hear their asylum claims. The government has ostensibly kept track of the families through trackers such as ankle bracelets or location data on cell phones.
Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-says-it-cant-find-records-on-nearly-400000-illegal-immigrants-it-should-be-monitoring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to losing track of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The revelation came in response to an open records request filed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
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“ICE’s response that they could no longer find records on immigrants in Alternatives to Detention (ATD) that they had previously released came as a shock, particularly after they informed us recently that they had been misleading the public for several months by releasing extremely inaccurate ATD data. The agency really needs to come clean. The American public deserves to have accurate data about the ATD program,” TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher said at the time.
In addition to losing track of immigrants it is supposed to be monitoring, ICE deportations have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-deportations-lag-another-year-as-agents-deployed-to-border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> as well, as ICE agents have been reassigned to the U.S. southern border to aid in border security.
ICE deployed more than a thousand of its agents to the southern border last year to supplement Customs and Border Patrol agents with arresting and turning back migrants under Title 42 authority.

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Novak Djokovic plays tennis for a living. And the 35-year-old Serbian has won 22 Grand Slam titles, a feat accomplished by only one other player, Rafael Nadal &#8212; so he&#8217;s pretty good.
But the administration of President Joe Biden has forbidden Djokovic from coming to the United States to play, saying that the fact that he refuses to be vaccinated against COVID makes him a deadly risk.
Djokovic has long been reticent to take the vaccine, and at first, it seemed a bit petty. There was a deadly pandemic, and most people felt a sense of society when they bit the bullet and took the jab.
But now, with world-class athletes seemingly dropping dead all around the world, Djokovic&#8217;s recalcitrance appears to have been correct. And besides, his body, his choice. He didn&#8217;t want to put an odd substance into his highly honed athletic body, so he just didn&#8217;t.
He&#8217;s not against vaccines, he said in 2020, but he does oppose forced vaccination. &#8220;The principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or anything else,&#8221; he said.
But in late 2021, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) decided he couldn&#8217;t play in the Australian Open, a major that he won the year before. A short time later, Djokovic lost the No. 1 <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-15/novak-djokovic-vaccination-stance-affects-legacy/100831504">ranking</a> that he had held for a record 373 weeks. And due to the U.S. government&#8217;s forced vaccination policy for non-U.S. citizens, Djokovic was banned from entering the United States to play in the 2022 U.S. Open, another major tournament he was the favorite to win.
That all seems ages ago now. Most Americans &#8212; and most of the world, too &#8212; have moved on, returning to normal life. The COVID pandemic has greatly waned, and for many who get the virus, it&#8217;s more like the flu nowadays.
Yet with nationwide vaccine mandates still in place for foreign travelers, Djokovic has been forced to pull out of the Indian Wells tournament in California. His request for a waiver to enter the U.S. without a vaccine was rejected by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He was supposed to play in the Miami Open the following week, but his participation in the tournament is up in the air, too.
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All this while the pandemic is &#8220;over.&#8221; That&#8217;s not us saying that — it was Biden.
Last September, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shocks-white-house-by-declaring-pandemic-is-over-while-hundreds-of-americans-die-every-day">declared:</a> &#8220;The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s – but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”
Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio last week urged the Biden administration to intervene so that Djokovic could get into the country to play. The pair wrote a letter to Biden saying Djokovic poses no danger to the public.
“Mr. Djokovic is a world-class athlete in peak physical condition who is not at high-risk of severe complications from COVID-19,” the duo says in the letter. “It seems both illogical and misaligned with the opinions of your own administration to not grant him the waiver he requests so that he may travel to the U.S. to compete in a professional event.”
“The lack of public health risk, along with the clear benefit of his participation in an event that will be a major driver of our local economies should make the decision before you simple and serve as a precedent for others in his position,” the letter continues, “while hopefully leading to the full reversal of this mandate for other foreign visitors who wish to legally travel to our great nation.”
Djokovic is, of course, a high-profile foreigner. But the U.S. Travel Association says, &#8220;America&#8217;s outdated vaccine policy for international visitors is an unforced error that is contributing to an $80 billion loss in foreign traveler spending.&#8221;
&#8220;Novak Djokovic is merely one of millions of travelers deterred from visiting the United States due to a well-intended but antiquated policy. It is well past time for the United States to join with its peers in Europe, Australia and elsewhere and remove pandemic vaccine requirements for our international guests,&#8221; the association said in a <a href="https://www.ustravel.org/news/us-travel-banning-novak-djokovic-unforced-error-america">statement</a> Monday.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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What A Joke? One Of The Greatest Active Tennis Players Is Barred From Playing In U.S. For Not Taking COVID Vaccine

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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) paused a domestic-intelligence program last year over concerns that it may run afoul of Americans’ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/civil-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil rights</a>.
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&amp;A), one of 18 government offices and agencies that make up the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Intelligence Community</a>, oversees the “Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program” as part of its intelligence-gathering operations. The program allows the I&amp;A to interview almost anyone in the United States, according to internal DHS documents reviewed by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/dhs-domestic-intelligence-program-00085544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
Part of the I&amp;A program was put on hold last year as concerns grew within the department that it could lead to violations of the rights of interviewees who are currently incarcerated, out of prison on parole, or otherwise in a sensitive position regarding authorities. Some employees concerned about the legally gray area they operated in asked about government-covered legal liability insurance.
Others worried about raising internal concerns about I&amp;A or blowing the whistle on aspects of the agency they felt violated the Constitution. According to an April 2021 document reviewed by POLITICO, one unnamed employee said the leadership of the I&amp;A’s Office of Regional Intelligence “is ‘shady’ and ‘runs like a corrupt government.’”
Former acting head of DHS in the Trump administration, Chad Wolf, told POLITICO that the I&amp;A’s issues “largely stemmed from lack of proper leadership and a clearly defined mission.” He added, “the concept of I&amp;A is sound but how it is put into practice and operationalized has proven difficult.”
DHS Under Secretary for I&amp;A Kenneth Wainstein did not answer questions about the I&amp;A&#8217;s human intelligence program.
“The true measure of a government organization is its ability to persevere through challenging times, openly acknowledge and learn from those challenges, and move forward in service of the American people,” Wainstein said in a statement. “The Office of Intelligence and Analysis has done just that over the past few years.”
Legal experts say human intelligence collection – intelligence gathered from people directly rather than from avenues such as a satellite or forensics – can be violative of constitutional rights. The I&amp;A program reportedly allows agents to contact inmates, paroled persons, or those awaiting trial without contacting their attorney first. The agents are supposed to tell the interviewee that participation is voluntary and that nothing can be expected to be gained from helping the agents with intelligence collection. The interviewees are also supposed to be told that they have no control over how the information they tell the agents can be used.
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News of the frozen I&amp;A program comes as DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faces mounting impeachment threats over his handling of the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border. North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican who sits on the House Homeland Security and Judiciary committees, said over the weekend that Mayorkas has flouted federal immigration law.
“There’s a laundry list of statutes that he has explicitly disobeyed,” he told <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/05/rep-dan-bishop-calls-impeachment-inquiries-biden-mayorkas-others/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>. “That is high crimes and misdemeanors. You got to build consensus within a Republican conference. Some want to use a light touch on these things all the time. A lot of people say, ‘Well, if we can’t, we’re not assured that the Senate will convict, and it’s in Democrat hands, why would we do any of it?&#8217;”
“There are reasons to do it, but we’ve got a process to go through, marshal the evidence, conduct the hearings in public and, if it leads in the direction and all the evidence adds up when you’ve done it in a real rigorous way like that, do you move forward with impeachment? I think so,” he said.

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A Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday he would detain Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> if given the opportunity.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), a former law enforcement officer, accused Mayorkas of committing a number of crimes due to a &#8220;wide open&#8221; southern border that he said is leading to American fatalities, particularly with <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/202205.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tens of thousands of overdose deaths</a> each year in the United States amid a surge in fentanyl trafficking.
&#8220;If I could arrest you for violations of Louisiana revised statutes, I would,&#8221; Higgins said during a Homeland Security Committee <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/full-committee-hearing-every-state-is-a-border-state-examining-secretary-mayorkas-border-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing on the border crisis</a>.
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Citing specific statutes, including one for <a href="https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/law.aspx?d=78409" target="_blank" rel="noopener">negligent homicide</a> and another for being <a href="https://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=78383" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a &#8220;principal&#8221; to a crime</a>, as well as others, Higgins faulted Mayorkas specifically for deaths attributed to fentanyl. The lawmaker illustrated his point by showing the image of a 23-year-old named Sami whom he said died under the secretary&#8217;s watch.
&#8220;Remember her name,&#8221; Higgins said before vowing to ensure Mayorkas remembers other Americans &#8220;who are dead because of fentanyl coming across a border that you have blown wide open.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment in response to Higgins&#8217; remarks.
“Despite inheriting a dismantled immigration system and facing unprecedented migration that is affecting nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, this Administration has surged resources to the border, reduced the number of encounters between ports of entry, disrupted more smuggling operations than ever before, and interdicted more drugs in the last two years than had been stopped in the five years prior,&#8221; a DHS official said.
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“Instead of pointing fingers and trying to score political points, Congress should work on legislative solutions for our broken immigration system, which it has not updated in over 40 years,&#8221; the official added.
During his time to speak, Higgins asked witness Mark Lamb, sheriff of Arizona&#8217;s Pinal County, if the country could &#8220;fix&#8221; its border in one week with adequate federal policies that would allow authorities to enforce the law in the face of widespread Mexican cartel activities.
&#8220;Yes, Mr. Higgins, we could do that,&#8221; Lamb replied. &#8220;A week might be tight, but 30 to 60 days we could definitely fix this. We&#8217;re America. We can stop this when we decide we want to stop it.&#8221;

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The Biden administration proposed a new restriction on asylum seekers that closely resembles a policy from the Trump administration.
The new rule would prevent migrants who do not use already available legal pathways to asylum and do not seek asylum in a third country from applying for asylum in the U.S. Biden Administration officials said the rule was proposed in response to the end of Title 42 immigration restrictions. It also closely resembles a Trump administration policy which similarly banned asylum seekers who did not first seek asylum in another country.
&#8220;The proposed rule would encourage migrants to avail themselves of lawful, safe, and orderly pathways into the United States, or otherwise to seek asylum or other protection in countries through which they travel, thereby reducing reliance on human smuggling networks that exploit migrants for financial gain,&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice wrote in a <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-03718.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice of proposed rulemaking</a> Tuesday. &#8220;It would do so by introducing a rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility for certain noncitizens who neither avail themselves of a lawful, safe, and orderly pathway to the United States nor seek asylum or other protection in a country through which they travel.&#8221;
&#8220;In the absence of such a measure, which would be implemented on a temporary basis, the number of migrants expected to travel without authorization to the United States is expected to increase significantly, to a level that risks undermining the Departments’ continued ability to safely, effectively, and humanely enforce and administer U.S. immigration law, including the asylum system, in the face of exceptionally challenging circumstances,&#8221; the two departments continued.
The DOJ and DHS expressed optimism that the new restriction would lead to a reduction in migrants crossing the southern border; and thereby reducing the power of human smuggling networks and helping to decrease the numbers of migrants in already overcrowded border facilities. This reduction in numbers would ensure that migrant processing &#8220;is done in an effective, humane, and efficient manner,&#8221; the departments wrote.
After a public comment period, the new restrictions will go into effect on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-admits-it-will-end-covid-emergency-in-may-in-a-letter-telling-republicans-not-to-end-covid-emergency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 11th</a>, the same day that the Biden administration intends to end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title 42</a> restrictions, which allow authorities to turn migrants away due to public health concerns, are also scheduled to end then.
The new restrictions closely resemble a similar asylum ban implemented by the Trump administration. Those restrictions, referred to as both &#8220;asylum bans&#8221; and &#8220;transit bans,&#8221; were highly controversial and bitterly fought over in the courts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-bars-trump-administration-enforcing-asylum-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from the beginning</a> of former President Trump&#8217;s term. The <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/3868292-biden-administration-proposes-new-restrictions-on-asylum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump-era bans</a> were blocked by the courts in 2018 and 2020; the final rule was implemented on Trump&#8217;s last full day in office, but a judge struck that down as well.
Democrats and immigration advocates decried the new rules because of the similarities to Trump policies. But the Biden administration dismissed those criticisms, and noted that they have provided alternative pathways for migrants to seek asylum. In January, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas rejected the comparisons, saying that his plan was based on “a rebuttable presumption of ineligibility. And there’s a marked difference between the two,” he said, via The Hill.

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Thousands of federal employees may have wrongfully obtained coronavirus bailouts by claiming to be unemployed, with some even doing so from their desks at government offices, federal investigators found.
Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-blasts-biden-for-compiling-naughty-list-of-peddlers-of-misinformation-like-the-lab-leak-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joni Ernst</a> (R-IA) is demanding answers, saying that the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PARC) should &#8220;recover the money that was ripped off, and grant each of those who took advantage of taxpayers by collecting jobless benefits their wish to be unemployed.&#8221;
&#8220;It is appalling for anyone fortunate enough to have the reliability of a government paycheck to take advantage of financial assistance intended to provide a lifeline to Americans who lost their jobs or were unable to work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; Ernst added.
A variety of government programs paid significant sums to people who said their jobs had been impacted by coronavirus in 2020. The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Inspector General <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2022-09/OIG-22-73-Sep22.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that nearly 2,000 applications for &#8220;Lost Wages Assistance&#8221; and unemployment insurance payouts had the names of DHS employees who were ineligible since they were, of course, employed by the government agency.
In fact, of 2,393 applications filed with DHS employees&#8217; names, only 584 could be confirmed as actually eligible for the program — and even some of those bore signs of fraud, such as incorrect amounts.
Benefits could also be paid to people whose hours were cut back because of the pandemic, but in 366 cases, the name associated with the unemployment claim actually worked overtime during the relevant period, the audit found.
In some cases, the fraud may have been the result of criminals stealing the employees’ identities and successfully filing unemployment claims with them. In others, there were indications that the employees were to blame, including that some government assistance forms were actually filled out from computers registering to the DHS computer network.
Either way, fraud was able to occur because DHS had few security measures in place for verifying assistance claims despite being tasked with keeping the nation safe.
&#8220;This occurred because FEMA hastily implemented the LWA program in 11 days, during an unprecedented pandemic, without developing program controls to prevent fraud,&#8221; auditors wrote.
Ernst wrote Friday to Michael Horowitz, chair of the PARC, that &#8220;Employees of other federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, Amtrak, and the U.S. Postal Service have also been caught fraudulently collecting unemployment payments, despite being on the federal payroll.”
On January 4, the state of <a href="https://oig.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-04/oig-publishes-open-letter-regarding-ui-fraud-state-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia&#8217;s inspector general</a> said that &#8220;we have tentatively identified over 280 full-time state employees who erroneously received unemployment insurance (UI) payments in 2020 or 2021. These payments averaged $23,700 per employee and totaled over $6.7 million. And this is a conservative estimate.&#8221;
Those included &#8220;Two Department of Human Services DCSS/DFCS supervisors who received approximately $49,730 and $36,575&#8221; and a state employee whose job was to evaluate unemployment claims, but who himself &#8220;received approximately $31,220 and who continued to update a fraudulent UI account while employed with&#8221; the Georgia Department of Labor.
In October, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-current-or-former-irs-employees-charged-defrauding-federal-covid-19-relief-programs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> said it had charged five former or current IRS employees with pandemic fraud seeking more than $1 million, which they allegedly used on &#8220;cars, luxury goods, and personal travel, including trips to Las Vegas.&#8221; But the inspector general for the Small Business Administration (SBA), which administered the largest coronavirus programs, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-lady-got-20k-federal-stimulus-for-female-owned-sole-proprietorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that so much money was paid out in such a short amount of time, and with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-loan-fraud-prevention-fell-to-unvetted-firms-that-profited-hugely-while-ignoring-fraud-congress-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so few safeguards</a>, that only a tiny fraction of suspicious cases have even been investigated.
SBA doled out forgivable &#8220;loans&#8221; to business owners whose livelihood was ostensibly interrupted by COVID, known as PPP or EIDL payments. In its most recent <a href="https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/PRAC_Semiannual_Report_Sept_2022_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semiannual report</a> to Congress, PARC said that by matching the information of federal employees with these payments, six federal agencies found &#8220;tens of thousands of employees with SBA loans for which they were not eligible.&#8221;
Cross-referencing that list of names — people with stable jobs whose identities are readily known to the government because they work for it — could yield many more problematic unemployment claims at other agencies, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ernst</a> said. &#8220;I would encourage you to conduct a similar review to determine how many unscrupulous bureaucrats wrongfully took advantage of the federal pandemic unemployment and lost wages assistance programs,&#8221; she wrote.

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The newly minted GOP majority in the House of Representatives has a lot on its plate: a debt ceiling negotiation, investigations into COVID origins, not to mention President Biden, his son Hunter, and the cavalcade of classified documents that keep showing up everywhere the president has ever been. But one matter of urgent business should not get lost in the shuffle. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas must be a top priority.
Democrats, and even some Republicans who disapprove of the admittedly drastic course of action, argue that the criticisms of Mayorkas are over policy, not over allegations of high crimes or misdemeanors. First of all, as we all remember quite well from the impeachments of Donald Trump, a “high crime or misdemeanor” is whatever Congress says it is, so what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Even under more traditional definitions, however, Mayorkas’ shambolic tenure has more than risen to the needed level of negligence and dishonesty.
We can all agree that being bad at your job is neither a crime nor a misdemeanor, but performing your job with gross, glaring, and knowing negligence absolutely can be. This is especially true if the result of that negligence does severe harm to others, just ask <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alec-baldwin-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-over-2021-rust-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alec Baldwin</a>.
Secretary Mayorkas has not simply performed poorly regarding his task to secure the southern border, he has simply <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused to do it</a> at all.
How do we know this? We know it because he won’t even admit the border is not secure. In fiscal year 2022, migrant crossings reached a record and shocking, 2.76 million — one million higher than any previous year. And it’s not just human beings, some of whom are brutally trafficked, it is also deadly amounts of fentanyl fueling a crisis of overdoses from sea to drug-addled sea. But if you ask Mayorkas, or the White House for that matter, there is nothing to see here; the border is secure, and everything is working as planned. It’s the very definition of gross negligence.
That brings us to the lying. Telling this tall tale about a secure border to the press and the American people is dereliction of duty, but not a crime. Telling it to Congress, however, is an entirely different matter. Mayorkas has a legal duty to be honest with those in Congress tasked with his oversight. No reasonable person can conclude he has been. Instead he has at best deflected their questions and at worst lied straight to their often furious faces.
But of all his lies, of all his derelictions, there is one that stands out above all others as a clarion call for his impeachment. Another form of lying that crosses legal boundaries is slander, and in regard to his own border agents who were falsely accused of the racist whipping of Haitian migrants on horseback — he is absolutely guilty of that heinous act. For almost a year he maintained this vicious and malicious lie was true, he even punished the agents and it&#8217;s utterly despicable.
Mayorkas said he was “horrified,” and that the horses had been “weaponized.” But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/email-shows-sec-mayorkas-was-alerted-migrants-were-not-whipped-by-border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new emails</a> obtained by the Heritage Foundation show that Biden administration officials told him within days that he needed to clarify his remarks because reins are not whips. Not only did he fail to clarify the remarks, but he told Congress that an investigation would take place “in a matter of days, not weeks.” It took almost a year, and as it turned out there was no whipping, which was frankly obvious within hours of the incident when even the cameraman who took the footage said he saw no whipping.
Congress cannot allow our border agents to continue to work under a man who blatantly lies about them, who smears them as racist to advance his own political agenda. It’s an absolute disgrace and more than impeachable. From Biden’s document scandal to Mayorkas’ lies, this is clearly an administration that believes no rules apply to them, that they can do whatever they want with no consequence. Well, it&#8217;s time for some consequences.
Impeaching Mayorkas would not be a political stunt — in fact, it wouldn’t be political at all. It is the duty of Congress to remove officials in the executive branch for high crimes and misdemeanors when those misdeeds show that the official can no longer function in their role. Mayorkas has made Swiss cheese of a southern border that the Trump administration had brought under much greater control. This isn’t because of incompetence or laziness — it is intentional. Even the lies about the whipping were meant to deflect from his myriad failures. 
The time to act is now, and the action to take is impeachment. Republicans in the House must not be afraid to do their duty.
David Marcus is a columnist and author of &#8220;Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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For the first time, migrants crossed from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mexico</a> into the United States on Wednesday using a government-sponsored app that critics say could increase fraudulent asylum claims. 
Billed as a way to speed up the asylum process for those who made their way to America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">southern border</a>, the CBP One mobile app allows those hoping to enter the U.S. via asylum to input their information into a pre-screening application to set up an appointment with a border official. 
It is unclear how or if the information entered is verified before the individual is released into the U.S., though the app does not guarantee entry. 
According to Reuters, the app is in <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/first-migrants-cross-into-u-s-from-mexico-using-mobile-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high demand.</a> One Florida-bound Venezuelan told the outlet that he was “excited” to see his family after entering El Paso, Texas, using the app. 
Critics of the app process say it could be abused by individuals without legitimate asylum claims. 
“Instead of trying to stop an unprecedented flow of migrants, they’re encouraging even more fraudulent asylum claims, while finding innovative ways to process them en masse,” R.J. Hauman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/14/bidens-dhs-launches-mobile-app-allowing-migrants-schedule-appointments-southern-border-release-u-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Breitbart News. “If they wanted to actually end the crisis, the solution is simple: enforce our laws, don’t create an app to make circumventing them even easier.”
Hauman added that the new use of the app “is one of the most jaw-dropping examples of the Biden administration’s eagerness to let everyone in under the veil of legitimacy.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone">launched</a> the app in October 2020 during the Trump administration. Earlier this month, President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/05/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-border-enforcement-actions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> its rollout to “significantly reduce wait times and crowds at U.S. ports of entry and allow for safe, orderly, and humane processing.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the app is currently <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/12/dhs-scheduling-system-safe-orderly-and-humane-border-processing-goes-live-cbp-onetm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only available</a> for foreign nationals who have a humanitarian reason for entry due to the extension of Title 42, a COVID-related measure that allows migrants to be turned back based on health concerns. Individuals who apply through the app could still be rejected over Title 42. 
“Noncitizens utilizing CBP One must attest that they believe they meet certain identified vulnerability criteria and be prepared to substantiate this claim upon presentation at a POE [point of entry]. The application provides a safe and orderly way for certain noncitizens to present at POEs, unlike attempting to cross U.S. borders without authorization,” the agency explained. 
The rollout of the app comes as <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/13/monthly-encounters-with-migrants-at-u-s-mexico-border-remain-near-record-highs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monthly encounters</a> between Border Patrol and migrants at the border continue at almost record highs, as the border has seen a flood of crossings during the Biden administration.

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Republican Texas Rep. Pat Fallon filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republican-files-articles-impeachment-dhs-sec-mayorkas">reported</a>.
Fallon introduced the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in the House on Monday for &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors,&#8221; known as House Resolution 8.
&#8220;Since day one, Secretary Mayorkas’ policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border,&#8221; Fallon said in a statement to Fox News last week. &#8220;From perjuring himself before Congress about maintaining operational control of the border to the infamous ‘whip-gate’ slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time and time again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security.&#8221;
&#8220;His willful actions have eroded our immigration system, undermined border patrol morale, and jeopardized American national security. He has violated the law and it is time for him to go,&#8221; Fallon added. 
The move comes in the first week of Republican California Rep. Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s tenure as speaker of the House.
McCarthy said if Republicans took back control of the House that Mayorkas could potentially face impeachment over his handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border, which has seen a record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico.
&#8220;If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure and will determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry,&#8221; McCarthy told Fox News in November.
The U.S. Border Patrol reported encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year were more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/09/whats-happening-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-in-7-charts/">according</a> to Pew Research.
The U.S. saw 2,378,944 encounters at the border in fiscal year 2022, excluding the nearly 600,000 known “gotaways” who escaped custody altogether.
Fox News reported last week that Fallon&#8217;s articles of impeachment against Mayorkas would come in three sections.
The first article alleges that Mayorkas failed to faithfully execute the &#8220;Secure the Fence Act of 2006,&#8221; saying the law requires the secretary of Homeland Security to &#8220;maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.&#8221;
The second article accuses Mayorkas of being in &#8220;violation of his constitutional oath, willfully provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to Congress&#8221; for testifying the border was secure during April 26 and November 15 congressional hearings.
Fallon&#8217;s last article says that Mayorkas &#8220;publicly and falsely slandered&#8221; border agents who were accused of whipping Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, in 2021. Those accusations were later cleared.
&#8220;The 511-page report by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection&#8217;s Office of Personal Responsibility found ‘no evidence that [Border Patrol agents] involved in this incident struck, intentionally or otherwise, any migrant with their reins,’&#8221; Fallon wrote, according to Fox News. &#8220;Secretary Mayorkas slandered his own Border Patrol agents and TXDPS Troopers involved in this incident, contributing to a further decrease in already-low morale among agents.&#8221;
The files have been referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
Fallon promised to deliver the impeachment articles last week before the 118th Congress was officially sworn in.
Mayorkas told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday that he would not resign over his handling of the southern border, adding he would be prepared for investigations by House Republicans.
&#8220;I do not,&#8221; Mayorkas said when pressed by anchor George Stephanopoulos to respond to McCarthy&#8217;s call for him to resign or if he had any plans to step down. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot of work to do, and we&#8217;re going to do it.&#8221;

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Assisting with a record flood of people crossing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. southern border</a> strained <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</a> resources as the number of deportations conducted by the agency lagged again in fiscal year 2022.
ICE deployed more than a thousand of its agents to the southern border throughout the year to supplement Customs and Border Patrol with arresting migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally and, in many cases, expelling the migrants immediately from the country under the Title 42 pandemic order, ICE officials told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/12/30/title-42-immigration-ice-arrests-deportation-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>. ICE also sent roughly 300 agents to work on agency priorities internationally.
“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with its colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our shared mission to keep U.S. communities safe,” ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson said in a Friday statement. The agency released its end-of-the-year <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-releases-fy-2022-annual-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Friday.
“ICE’s annual report highlights the efforts of our more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in responding to complex cross-border and domestic threats. We will continue to safeguard national security and public safety while living our core values: integrity, courage, and excellence,” Johnson said.
The deployments took ICE officers away from the agency’s main mission: enforcing U.S. immigration laws in the interior of the country. In end-of-the-year data released Friday, the agency reported arresting roughly double the number of illegal aliens in 2022 from 2021. Deportations also increased, but remained at historical lows.
ICE made about 143,000 arrests in fiscal year 2022, an increase from fiscal year 2021’s roughly 74,000 arrests. Much of the 2022 arrests took place at the U.S. border and involved migrants who had just entered the country.
Deportations conducted by the agency also rose from about 59,000 in 2021 to roughly 72,000 in 2022. Both years lagged far behind the number of deportations executed in fiscal year 2020 when nearly 186,000 illegal aliens were removed from the U.S.
ICE is tracking roughly 4.8 million migrant cases that are being processed in immigration courts, nearly a third more than last year. About 1.2 million aliens have been ordered to leave the country by an immigration court.
The immigration enforcement agency tracks many aliens through “Alternative to Detention” (ATD) programs. ATD was created nearly two decades ago with the goal of removing some aliens from crowded detention facilities, but continuing to monitor them through electronic surveillance or mandatory check-ins with case agents. ICE reported that roughly 321,000 aliens are currently enrolled in such programs.
The agency recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-says-it-cant-find-records-on-nearly-400000-illegal-immigrants-it-should-be-monitoring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had “no records” of aliens enrolled in the program since October 2018. ICE responded to an open records request from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on ATD enrollees with a letter saying that a search for records turned up nothing.
“ICE has conducted a search of the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for records responsive to your request and no records responsive to your request were found,” the agency told TRAC.
TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher vented frustration with the agency’s response in a post on social media: “Just days after announcing that the agency had been misleading to the public for months about how many immigrants were on gps ankle monitors, @icegov claims it can’t find records on over 350,000 immigrants in alternatives to detention program.”

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