Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are putting out a report accusing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of ceding border control to the cartels.
"It is unknown how many additional national security threats have been among the approximately 1.5 million known gotaways that have evaded Border Patrol altogether," the report said.
In a statement accompanying the report, Green said that the report"documents in clear and unflinching detail how the cartels are taking advantage of our open Southwest border to rake in billions of dollars through increased human smuggling and drug trafficking, while spreading death and destruction throughout our communities."
Mayorkas has himself rejected the claim his department has ceded control of the border to the cartels. In July, he told lawmakers his agency is"taking it to the transnational criminal organizations, the cartels that peddle in death and destruction, to an unprecedented degree." He also highlighted stats from operations targeting fentanyl smuggling.
He also said that U.S. arrested"more criminals involved in cartel activity than in the prior several years."DHS has also pushed back against broader criticism from Republicans, accusing them of failing to work with the administration on legislation to fix a"broken" system and calling for more funding for its border operations.
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