'I'm Just Trying To Get You To Answer': Kennedy Presses Mayorkas On Release Of Criminal Migrants

michael says you need to vote now thank you mr secretary for being here today um and thank you for your service uh there's a famous movie line i'm sure you've heard it uh deserves got nothing to do with it deserves got nothing to do with it and uh i don't think you deserve to have to be here today to answer questions about immigration because i don't think you're calling the shots i think those shots are being called out of the white house i think they ought to be here the the people determining our border policy and your opinion um are they just incompetent or do they believe in open borders um uh senator i'm intensely and immensely proud to be a member of president biden's cabinet and for the policies that are promulgated i should be held accountable right i looked last night at president biden's platform when he ran for president he supported amnesty for the 11.7 million people in our country illegally he promised he would end the remaining mexico program he promised he would end the safe third country agreements he promised he would get rid of the border wall he uh promised to encourage sanctuary cities and he said i'm not going to deport people can we agree that you don't have to be mensa material to understand that's an open border policy uh senator um a few of your recitations if i may respectfully submit were not accurate portrayals of the president's policy he did not i i looked up his platform last night it's right there i mean here's what i believe on immigration um senator again i would respectfully disagree with your characterization of the president's policies so for example um well let me ask you this okay you say he didn't say this um the the serves that we're having at the border the 1.7 million people that have come into our country illegally and the washington post says it's another thousand who are undetected president says that happens every single solitary year is he wrong on that or right on that um senator we encounter many many people um uh at the border uh every year the number that we have encountered of different individuals this year uh is at a historic level like the highest in 60 years right as i mentioned earlier i'm not familiar with the time frame but it is certainly a historically high number okay well your your administration has released thousands of people into our country who are coveted positive have you not uh senator as i mentioned earlier it is our policy to test and as necessary isolate and quarantine i know but you've still released thousands who are positive there have been individuals who have been released um and by the way those individuals uh just to be clear because there's a misperception those individuals who are not immediately expelled or removed under expedited processes are placed into immigration enforcement proceedings right right they are but i'm talking about here in court and stand before a judge and if they don't have a claim under law to remain in the united states they are removed your uh your department has released thousands of people into this country illegally you're drug dealers haven't you i'm sorry senator your department has released thousands of people illegally into this country who are drug dealers haven't you i don't uh i'm not familiar with uh what you've just articulated it is our policy that if an individual uh is a drug dealer and we encounter and apprehend that individual at the border the individual poses a public safety threat and there are not conditions that are available to us to ensure the safety but how do you know if a thousand a day according to the washington post will come in the undetected if if i may uh just to finish my statement i'm sure there are not if there are not conditions that can secure the safety of the american people that individual is detained it's placed in immigration custody right right we know the superlative job y'all are doing um you your department has released thousands of people into this country illegally who have criminal records haven't you um senator individuals who are apprehended at the border are subject to a number of different paths they can be expelled under title 42 of the u.s code under the cdc's public health authority they can be placed into expedited mr secretary i've got limited time and i understand the procedure but i know but i'm just trying to get you to answer my questions your administration the byte administration has released into our country people coming across the border thousands of them who have criminal records isn't that the case senator i'm not aware of thousands of individuals with criminal records who are released into the interior of the united states your department has released into our country thousands of people who have promptly gone on welfare isn't that the case i don't believe that uh individuals who are unlawfully present in the united states qualify for welfare but um that is something that i i'm happy to ever been to california i grew up for most of my life in california i checked their roles i wasn't um uh born in this country yes or i know and i think we ought to tell the cuban american success story every chance we get thank you you're um i'm about to run out of time our vice president harris i brought a czar what kind of grade would you give her vice president um harris is not the borders our vice president harris has been uh asked by the president of the united states to focus on root causes okay let me answer this quickly in my last few seconds when's the last time you talked to her about about uh securing the border several weeks ago okay thank you mr chairman thank you senator i want you to recognize that i sure do you get an a plus senator booker yeah thank you very much for being here secretary mattis i want to thank you and the incredible professionals thousands of work under your command and thank

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Length: 7min 28sec (448 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 16 2021