FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for documents and information related to moves by the administration to cut razor wire set up by the state of Texas to allow illegal immigrants deeper into the interior.
Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as well as Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock, R-Calif., and Subcommittee on Responsiveness and Accountability to Oversight Chairman Ben Cline, R-Va., have written to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas following up on two requests for more information about the situation in Eagle Pass, Texas, in September.
On Sept. 20, a massive surge of mostly Venezuelan illegal immigrants surged into Eagle Pass, leading to the closing of two bridges as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) struggled to deal with the numbers they were seeing.
"While thousands of illegal aliens flooded into Eagle Pass, shutting down lawful commerce across the bridges, the Biden Administration’s DHS cut and removed Concertina wire and fencing installed as a deterrent by state and local governments, helping the aliens cross illegally," the lawmakers say.
