(CNS News) -- While addressing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an oversight hearing, House Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas "want illegal migrants" to enter the U.S. and "never go home."
This is an "intentional" policy, said Jordan. "The chaos on our southern border is not an accident. It's deliberate. It's on purpose. It's by design."
In his opening remarks before the April 28 House Judiciary Committee hearing on Homeland Security Oversight, Rep. Jordan, a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, said, "It's intentional. It's intentional. It has to be. The chaos on our southern border is not an accident. It's deliberate. It's on purpose. It's by design."
"… Americans want legal immigration," said Jordan. "President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas want illegal immigration. They want illegal migrants to come, stay, and never go home. Now, the secretary won't say that."
"In fact, he says everything's just fine," continued Jordan. "He said it yesterday in two congressional hearings. He said it last September. ‘The border is secure,’ he told us. In the 15 months Joe Biden has been president, 2,498,224 illegal migrants have been apprehended at our border. Hundreds of thousands of others that we didn't catch, the got-aways, have also entered our country."
"And the secretary says the border is secure," Jordan added.
"Think about last year," said the conservative congressman. "March of last year was the highest month on record for illegal migrants encountered at our southern border, highest month in history, until the month of April. And April was the highest month on record for illegal migrants coming to our country until the month of May. And May was the highest month on record until the month of June."
"And June was the highest month on record until the month of July, when 213,593 illegal migrants were at our southwest border," said Jordan. "And just two months after that, our witness, the Secretary of Homeland Security, said the border is secure."
"Mr. Secretary, if over 200,000 [illegal aliens] a month, and all the ramifications that has with drugs coming into the country and other people coming into the country because our agents are so focused on that," sid Jordan, "if that's a secure border, then you are completely, completely out of touch with the American people."
Jordan further said, “… We have a Secretary of Homeland Security who is intentionally, deliberately, in a premeditated fashion executing a plan -- his words -- executing a plan to overwhelm our country with millions and millions of illegal migrants. (Emphasis added.)
"Executing a plan that causes all kinds of harm to people who make the journey -- executing a plan that results in record levels of fentanyl and other drugs entering our nation," said Jordan. "Executing a plan that stresses our border agents, stresses our education and health care system, stresses our nation. All done intentionally."
"So, Mr. Chairman, I hope -- we're going to have a lot of questions for the secretary," said Jordan in conclusion. "But I hope one of the fundamental questions -- maybe the fundamental question that he will answer -- is why is he doing it? Why is he doing this to our fellow citizens? Why is he doing this to our country?"