Jordan Makes New Demand For ICE Records From DHS Mayorkas

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued one other subpoena to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, searching for data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

This newest subpoena follows the GOP-led House’s impeachment of Mayorkas final month and marks the third demand despatched to the DHS chief in current months. In December, Jordan issued a subpoena requesting paperwork associated to “violent” unlawful aliens, adopted by one other in February regarding border safety in Texas.

The Ohio Republican has additionally been searching for info on the unlawful immigrant suspected of killing University of Georgia nursing scholar Laken Riley, the Daily Wire reported.

“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 famous that committee workers had made a number of makes an attempt to inquire in regards to the standing of the requested info within the months following DHS’s missed deadline.

However, on two events, the company’s workers solely offered “a partial answer” initially, later providing hyperlinks to some public information and knowledge that failed to satisfy the panel’s necessities, the chairman elaborated.

“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 in his letter.

The Ohio Republican additional famous that the Oversight committee has jurisdiction over points that concern federal immigration legislation and hinted that the data being sought might have an effect on legislative actions that might embody “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 claims, nevertheless.

“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,” stated 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. On this request alone, DHS already provided the vast majority of the information requested by the committee and made clear that our efforts remain 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.”

About a dozen Republican senators stated they plan to disrupt the chamber’s enterprise if Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) permits articles of impeachment towards Mayorkas to be tabled with out holding a trial.

“Six sources told Fox News Digital that roughly a dozen GOP senators have been planning for more than a week to obstruct legislative proceedings and regular business in the Senate if, at a minimum, points of order are not agreed to in the impeachment trial of Mayorkas when the House impeachment managers deliver the articles to” Schumer, the outlet reported.

“The Senate runs on unanimous consent,” a Senate Republican aide accustomed to the talks informed the outlet. “Any one senator can do that.”

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