“The day will come soon when Secretary Mayorkas has to come and answer our questions. And to my colleagues, if he’ll lie to Mr. Lines and lie to the community here, then he will lie to …
YUMA, Ariz. — An elated crowd inside Yuma’s city hall cheered Thursday for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ potential impeachment after a local official accused him of lying about plans to close gaps in the US-Mexico border wall.
“The mayor and I had the opportunity to visit with Secretary Mayorkas and the Yuma [Border Patrol] sector chief … at sector headquarters almost a year ago,” Lines said. “And during that meeting he committed to, after reviewing the border both from the ground and the air, to specifically address ‘nine of the 11 Yuma gaps.'”Steven Nelson“To date so far? None. We see infrastructure on two and yet they would not deter anyone,” Lines said.
Another attendee, retiree Donna Angel, sat near the witness table wearing a t-shirt promoting Nikki Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential candidacy and said she cheered for Mayorkas’ impeachment “because nothing’s getting done.” But the Republican panel members pointed to record-high fentanyl death statistics and sought to poke holes in Democratic arguments that most of the fentanyl is smuggled through legal ports of entry rather than across unwalled sections of frontier.
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