Republicans want answers on Biden administration border policies and also on the number of terrorists coming through the southern border. The situation has gotten to the point where the Biden administration’s border security policies are a clear and present danger to the United States.

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FNC: “Twenty House Republicans on Monday wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding detailed answers about the Biden administration’s handling of the crisis at the southern border – and threatening a resolution of inquiry if the request is ignored.

The Republicans, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, point to the continued surge in migrant encounters at the border, with more than 188,000 in June and reported preliminary numbers that indicate around 210,000 in July. Meanwhile, there were more than 830 unaccompanied children encountered in a single day at the border last week. The lawmakers demand a slew of information, documents and correspondence from the department, including a breakdown of the number of migrants brought into Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody, the number of Border Patrol agents reassigned to facilities, the number of migrants who have tested positive for COVID-19 and have been released, and the amount of federal funding being spent on caring for migrants coming across the border.”

“These numbers are appalling and are a direct result of the Biden administration’s weak border policies and your lackluster performance as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, obtained by press.

“DHS’s mission is ‘with honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland and our values.’ Frankly, you are not fulfilling that mission,” they wrote.

“If no response is received, we intend to introduce a resolution of inquiry under clause 7 of House Rule XIII that will require your department to respond,” the letter says. “The American people and migrants seeking to come here deserve better than the chaos of a wide-open border.”

“Over the past several months, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have blatantly and consistently refused to do their constitutional duty to take care that the immigration laws be faithfully executed, as required by Article II, endangering countless American and foreign lives in the process,” Roy told media on Tuesday.

In related news, Republicans want to know how many terrorists have infiltrated our southern border. “Although most of the information on this topic is rightfully classified, the number of known or suspected terrorists attempting to illegally cross into the United States is not kept secret in the interest of national security and the American people deserve to be informed of this number,” a letter from Reps. John Katko, R-NY, August Pfluger, R-Texas and Clay Higgins, R-LA., to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. The congressmen said that in a recent visit to El Paso, “it was brought to our attention that recently apprehended individuals had been registered on the terrorist watchlist.”