House Republicans thrust the U.S.-Mexico border into the spotlight on Wednesday as they held the first of a series of hearings hammering the administration on its border policies and unveiled another impeachment resolution against the Homeland Security chief.
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee used a more than five-hour hearing — the panel’s first of the year —to point the finger at the Biden administration for overseeing record high levels of migration to the southwest border. Border agents reported a record number of more than 250,000 encounters with migrants in December alone.
Republican guests included an Arizona sheriff and a parent who lost his child to fentanyl poisoning, while Democrats invited a judge from El Paso.
