Mayorkas Set for Return to Hot Seat for Hearing on Threats at Border

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to face a barrage of questions regarding the security threats at America’s southern border at another hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Mayorkas is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland.” The homeland security chief recently testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Nov. 8 and before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Oct. 31. “Secretary Mayorkas has been very good at evading answers throughout all of his testimonies,” says James Massa, the CEO of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for lower rates of immigration, adding that he expects Mayorkas “to be evasive again.” “He has deferred to not wanting to answer specific numbers, not wanting to answer countries of origin, not wanting to answer how any terrorist who's already been apprehended—and there's almost 170 of them that were on the FBI terrorist watchlist—how they handle them and what they do with them,” Massa says of Mayorkas. Massa joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect during Wednesday’s hearing and whether real border security measures are possible under the current administration. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the daily film podcast for Wednesday, November 15th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee.
0:17.0	He is expected to face a lot of questions related to concerns over terrorists crossing America's southern border.
0:24.4	So how is he going to handle those questions?
0:28.1	Numbers USA CEO James Massa says Secretary Meork, has been very good at evading answers throughout all his testimonies,
0:38.0	and doesn't expect anything to change today.
0:41.0	So, will the Secretary actually weigh in on the situation at the border and can
0:47.8	anything actually change at our southern border under the Biden administration?
0:52.0	If it doesn't, what does that mean for national security?
0:55.2	Mesa joins us on the show today to answer those questions and much more.
0:59.7	So stay tuned for our conversation after this. Looking for quick conservative policy solutions to current issues
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1:24.8	takes from our experts.
1:26.6	Sign up at heritage.org slash agenda or at the link in the show notes. It is my pleasure to have with us today the CEO of Numbers USA, James
1:41.6	Massa. Thank you so much, sir, for being here with us today.
1:44.4	Oh, it's great to be here. It's my pleasure.
1:47.1	Well, before we dive deep into this conversation of talking about border and Homeland Security Secretary Myorcus and where things
1:54.7	stand in Congress related to border security. First, just share with us a little bit about
1:59.4	Numbers USA and your mission and what you all do.
2:02.4	Well, Numbers USA is a non-profit organization that's been in place for 27 years and the founder
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