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Committee member says Democratic immigration policies allowed '10,000,000' entries and defunded enforcement
Summary
A committee member opened a hearing asserting that Democratic policies permitted 10,000,000 unauthorized entries, established sanctuary jurisdictions that hinder removals, and reduced funding for immigration enforcement; the speaker also cited a reported House-floor move on temporary protected status affecting roughly 300,000 Haitians.
A committee member opened the hearing by urging witnesses to testify about family tragedies and framing recent immigration policy choices as the cause. The speaker asserted that "for 4 years, the Democrats allowed 10,000,000 illegal migrants to enter our nation," said sanctuary jurisdictions make removals harder, and alleged that lawmakers had "defunded" the people who carry out removals. The remarks framed the hearing as fact-finding: "This is not political," the committee member said, adding that witnesses had lived the consequences "in the worst way possible."
The committee member also pointed to activity on the House floor and temporary protected status, saying, "300,000 Haitians who entered the country during the Biden administration were gonna make that permanent." The speaker invited witnesses to give testimony (about 10 minutes each) and thanked the chairman for convening the session. The statements in this article are reported as assertions made by the committee member in the hearing record; the transcript does not provide documentary evidence in support of the numerical claims or the characterization of funding decisions. For clarity, ICE is referenced in the transcript by acronym; in this article that agency is named at first reference as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
