All of us and the Republicans led by Chairman Tom Mcclintock agreed that nearly 258 illegal aliens on the FBI terror watch list caught crossing the border was the alarm signal for action to stop the current mass migration crisis.
No one on the other side of the new great partisan chasm would agree there was a problematic border crisis, a related terrorism threat, or that the facts we presented were really facts.
In the hearing's beginning and at the end, Democrats led by Ranking Member Pramilla Jayapal dismissed the entire event as Republican political theater about a border crisis that they insist either doesn't exist or is actually good for the nation.
"There is no rigorous test or screening to put people on the list," the Cato witness insisted, and so we should not worry about those 258 border crossers through July 2023 who were on it.
Her report said that at least 75,000 special interest aliens had swamped the border systems in the last eight months.
There were plenty of dramatic moments, such as when Texas Rep. Chip Roy went on one of his famous tears aimed at Nowrasteh, clearly outraged by the libertarian's claim that, because there had been no prior attack from the border, there could be no future one, debilitating mass migration be damned.
The Democrats would nod in agreement with one another or their witness, then shake their heads or rolled their eyes at warnings by the likes of Republican witness Rodney Scott, the 30-year Border Patrol veteran and agency chief under Trump and Biden, when he lamented that mass migration was preventing face-to-face interviews with special interest aliens.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Insights-Giving-and-Watching-Congressional-Testimony
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