On January 18th, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a powerful hearing in which it called for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and examined his border policies. The hearing was titled, “Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis.”
During the hearing, numerous “Angel Moms,” called such because they lost a child to illegal immigrants, spoke about the deaths of their children and how the Biden Administration’s border policies, in their views, led to those deaths.
Chairman Mark Green, in a press release on that testimony, announced that the Committee “examined the devastating impact of Secretary Mayorkas’ intentional border crisis on Americans, including testimony from moms who have been forever impacted by his refusal to enforce the laws of the United States.”
Further, in a statement included in the press release, Rep. Green said, “After our nearly year-long investigation and subsequent impeachment proceedings, and having exhausted all other options to hold him accountable, it is unmistakably clear to all of us—and to the American people—that Congress must exercise its constitutional duty and impeach Secretary Mayorkas. The Secretary has consistently, willfully, and systemically refused to follow the laws passed by Congress, abused his authority, and breached the trust of Congress and the American people on numerous occasions. The result of his failure to fulfill his oath of office has been a border crisis that is unprecedented in American history—a crisis that has cost the lives of thousands of Secretary Mayorkas’ fellow Americans.”
Two of the Angel Moms who spoke during the hearing were Tammy Nobles and Josephine Dunn. Ms. Nobles spoke about how a suspected MS-13 gang member who had been released by Biden’s Border Patrol had killed her 20-year-old daughter, Kayla, in 2022. Ms. Josephine Dunn spoke about how her then-26-year-old daughter Ashley died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021.
Ms. Nobles, speaking about her daughter during her opening statement, said, “She loved life and God, and she showed the world that being yourself was OK; you didn’t have to follow everyone else.” Continuing, she described how in July of 2022 she got “the worst news that a parent” can receive. It was then, July 27, 2022, that she learned her daughter was “murdered in her own room and left on the floor like trash.”
Continuing, she noted that the Border Patrol should have not released the illegal immigrant who murdered her daughter because his body tattoos showed his gang affiliation. She told the committee, “Had DHS employees performed a visual inspection of his body, they would have seen MS-13 gang-related tattoos disqualifying him from entering the U.S.”
She then noted that all DHS would have had to do, after seeing the tattoos, is check with El Salvador to see if the individual was a gang member: “DHS employees failed to make a simple phone call to the El Salvadorian government to verify if the assailant was on an MS-13 gang affiliation list. Had they done so, El Salvador government officials would have confirmed that the assailant was a known MS-13 gang member with a prior criminal history.”
Ms. Nobles then argued that “Kayla fought for her life that day with all that she had, and in the end, she lost to an individual that wasn’t even supposed to be allowed in the country.” Continuing, she told the Committee, “For me, this is not a political issue. This is a safety issue for everyone living in the United States.”
Watch Ms. Nobles here:
Ms. Dunn noted that her daughter Josephine died of fentanyl, which she consumed thinking it was oxycodone. She called fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction [that] has killed over 100,000 Americans on our soil for two years in a row.”
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