Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., And the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, became tense over the migratory boom on the southern border.
Mayorkas was in the hot seat during a Wednesday House Committee on Homeland Security, titled “The Way Forward on Homeland Security.” Cammack used her time to braai the secretary about the migrant crisis at the border.
“I just want to bring it home a little bit,” the Florida congressman said of the border crisis. “Look, I come from a small town in the west and the month before I was to finish high school – which was in 2006 – one of my classmates was abducted by an illegal man who had been deported several times.”
Cammack said she believes that when there are ‘policies’ that’ encourage ‘illegal immigration and that there are no’ proper mechanisms to protect our borders, ‘the’ impact ” will have a resounding effect.
The Florida congressman then asked ‘how many more’ people like her friend ‘should be abducted in America’ before Mayorkas decides to ‘take action’.
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Mayorkas responded to Cammack, saying he viewed the Florida congresswoman’s question as “extraordinarily disrespectful.”
“Not just respect for me, but contempt for the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security and for all the front-line personnel across the country who are committed to the safety and security of the American people,” Mayorkas continued.
“I’m sorry you feel that way,” Cammack shrugged. “I’m sure the American people feel very disrespectful about the border situation they are currently facing.”
Earlier in the exchange, Congressman Mayorkas asked if ‘it would be reasonable’ that the country was in an ’emergency’ as the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) was deployed to the border.
Mayorkas said the agency was tackling the “very serious challenge” on the US-Mexico border, but refused to call it an “emergency”.
“So, since FEMA is the emergency management administration, they handle emergencies and they are now being deployed to the border,” Cammack said. “And it’s not an emergency? Is that what I hear?”
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Mayorkas replied that ‘the men and women of FEMA have a tremendous operational capability’ to meet the ‘challenges’ that emerge in missions.
The tense exchange took place when the Biden government experienced a growing crisis on the southern border – a situation that the president and his home security chief refuse to call a ‘crisis’.
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During a Tuesday appearance in Good Morning America, President Joe Biden warned prospective illegal immigrants not to come to the United States and said the government was “sending people back.”
“Yes, I can say very clearly: do not come,” Biden said in the interview, adding later, “Do not leave your city or town or community.”