Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the lead Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding records relating to the threat posed by the Biden administration’s “inability to detain and remove inadmissible travelers from US airports.”
According to Johnson, the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently published a report providing evidence of what Johnson calls the Biden administration’s disastrous handling of border security and blatant disregard for immigration laws.
The OIG report found that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identified 66,491 inadmissible non-citizen travelers at US airports during an 18-month period.
The OIG found that between 2021 and 2023, almost 400 inadmissible non-citizen travelers from a single undisclosed US international airport were released into the US with verbal instructions to return for their removal flights. At least 168 of those travelers failed to return for their removal flights.
“This security lapse must be fixed so that American airports do not become yet another easily exploited avenue for illegal immigration and terrorism.”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc)
The senator is requesting that Mayorkas provide information related to this lapse in security by July 22.
Full text of the letter can be found here.
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