Republican leaders in the House of Representatives used their first hearing of the new Congress to zero in on what they call a crisis at the southern U.S. border. Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leads his panel's first meeting in the new Republican majority — a hearing Wednesday titled,"The Biden Border Crisis — Part I."House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leads his panel's first meeting in the new Republican majority — a hearing Wednesday titled,"The Biden Border Crisis — Part I.
Republicans sought to portray the surge in migrants as a threat to communities across the country, while Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation. "The Biden administration actually expelled over 1.1 million people last year. And recently expanded the use of Title 42, much to the concern of many of us on the committee," said the committee's ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, who described the hearing as"political theater."Republicans on the committee also sought to focus attention on the growing number of deaths from fentanyl, which is often smuggled across the southern border from Mexico.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, accused Republicans of attempting to"conflate the issues of migrants seeking asylum through our legal processes with the very real scourge of fentanyl trafficking."
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