.JohnCornyn blasted the Biden administration's top border official, SecMayorkas, in a public hearing for his refusal to apologize to the parents of child victims of drug overdoses for his role in the US's failed response to the fentanyl epidemic.
Sen. John Cornyn tore into the Department of Homeland Security secretary Tuesday after he shared two stories of minors in his state who died after unknowingly consuming fentanyl, but Mayorkas refused to accept blame and pointed to how others had died from fentanyl prior to President Joe Biden's administration in 2021.
The senior Texas senator pushed Mayorkas, the former deputy secretary of DHS during the Obama administration, to"do something" about drug overdoses in the U.S. Cornyn then cited a statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said drug cartels in Mexico intentionally used immigrants to overwhelm Border Patrol agents at the southern border and pushed narcotics into the country in parts of the border that had been left unguarded.
Mayorkas reassured the committee that the DHS was"bringing unprecedented force to the fight against fentanyl." "My constituents are saying, 'Who’s accountable? Who’s paying a price? Who got fired?'" Cornyn rebutted and noted again that Mayorkas had declined to apologize to the victims' families."Well, you haven’t been fired. You should be fired, but you haven’t been fired because you were carrying out the policies of the Biden administration, and we’ve seen nothing but death and destruction as a result.
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