Jordan Issues Another Subpoena to Mayorkas Demanding Records From ICE

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has fired off one other subpoena to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The subpoena comes after the GOP-led House impeached Mayorkas final month and is the third one despatched to the DHS chief in latest months. In December, Jordan issued a subpoena demanding paperwork on “violent” unlawful aliens and one other in February about border safety in Texas.

The Ohio Republican has additionally been searching for info on the unlawful immigrant suspected of killing University of Georgia nursing pupil Laken Riley.

“As a part of its oversight efforts, we conducted transcribed interviews with several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. During these transcribed interviews, the ICE witnesses were unable to answer certain questions about data, documents, and communications related to the Biden Administration’s immigration policies,” Jordan wrote in a canopy letter accompanying his newest subpoena.

“On November 2, 2023, the Committee requested that the Department provide the information that the ICE witnesses could not provide during their transcribed interviews. To date, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to fully comply with our requests,” the GOP lawmaker added.

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Jordan acknowledged that committee employees tried on a number of events to inquire in regards to the standing of the requested info within the months following DHS’s missed deadline.

On two events, the company’s employees initially supplied “only a partial answer” and later shared hyperlinks to some public information and knowledge that didn’t fulfill the panel’s necessities, the chairman added.

“Although we appreciate that DHS has provided some limited data, your failure to produce all the requested documents and information prevents the Committee from fulfilling its constitutional oversight obligations,” Jordan wrote.

The chairman famous that the Oversight Committee has jurisdiction over points that concern federal immigration regulation and hinted that the data being sought might have an effect on legislative actions that might embrace “reforming Alternatives to Detention, increasing penalties on aliens who abscond from ICE, and enhancing ICE’s tracking, detention, and communications standards for aliens on the terrorist watchlist.”

A DHS spokesperson pushed again on Jordan’s assertions.

“Instead of working cooperatively, as DHS has repeatedly sought to do, the House Judiciary Committee continues to waste time with unnecessary subpoenas that serve no purpose beyond political posturing,” mentioned DHS press secretary Mia Ehrenberg. “In this administration, DHS has produced thousands of pages of documents, provided countless briefings, and sent dozens of witnesses to appear for hearings. DHS has already given the committee the vast majority of the information it requested on this request and made it clear that our efforts are ongoing.”

She added: “DHS will continue cooperating with Congressional oversight requests, all while faithfully working to protect our nation from terrorism and targeted violence, secure our borders, respond to natural disasters, defend against cyberattacks, and more.”

Federal brokers who spoke to the Washington Examiner after the House voted to impeach Mayorkas on Feb. 13 say the job has been horrendous since he was confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate in February 2021.

Some of them additionally worry that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will transfer to dismiss the 2 articles earlier than a trial may even start.

“I want to see our government take action!!” a California-based agent wrote in a textual content message to the outlet when requested in regards to the impeachment. “It took them long enough.”

Another California-based federal regulation enforcement agent mentioned that Mayorkas, who has led the DHS for 3 years, ought to be held accountable for the chaos on the border.

“Yes, I would like to see a trial,” mentioned the agent, who has been with the Border Patrol for 20 years. “There are no consequences for smugglers right now. We have so many [people who fail to yield to agents] and smugglers loading [vehicles with illegal immigrants] right on the border.”

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