The House Homeland Security Committee is probing a breakdown in Homeland Security’s ability to share critical intelligence about border security after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas showed an astonishing “ignorance” about how the smuggling cartels operate.
Mr. Mayorkas during a hearing earlier this year was confronted with the wristbands cartels make migrants wear, as a way of tracking them like cargo as they’re shipped across the U.S.-Mexico border and deeper into the U.S. He said he was unaware.
In a letter to Mr. Mayorkas on Monday he called the secretary’s answer “deeply troubling” and said a secretary must keep up with the situation at the border, including the tactics smugglers use to exploit weakness in U.S. policies, while making billions of dollars for themselves. The wristbands have become a symbol of the cartels’ organizational strength, and of the dehumanizing treatment the migrants are subjected to.
At a hearing last month Jaeson Jones, a former captain of intelligence and counterterrorism at the Texas Department of Public Safety, held up a handful of the colored bracelets he said came from the Gulf Cartel, which controls the territory south of Brownsville, Texas. They then go into what Mr. Jones called “debt bondage,” working off what they owe by drug trafficking for the cartels, or helping smuggle more people, or in some instances they may even be trafficked for sex. Others take regular jobs but have to make payments to the cartel’s operatives.Mr. Mayorkas with a photo of the bracelets in March. He’d intended to use the bracelets to set up another question, but he was too taken aback when Mr. Mayorkas said he didn’t know what they were.
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