'You're A Senior Member Of Homeland Security, Are You Not?': Kennedy Stumps Top Biden Officials

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stumped key Biden Administration officials about key illegal immigration statistics.

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00:00 Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Morant, since President Biden's been president,

00:06 how many non-American citizens have come into our country illegally or on the basis of a claim of

00:14 asylum? Thank you Senator. HSI as an investigative agency is... Do you know the number? No Senator.

00:26 You're a senior member of Homeland Security, are you not? That's correct. Does anybody know the

00:31 number? None of you know the number. Try eight million. Now of that eight million, how many

00:42 were children Mr. Morant? I don't have that number. You don't know. Does anybody know?

00:53 None of you know. Isn't that special? Let's assume half.

00:58 Okay, eight million is four Nebraska's, right?

01:05 Four new states.

01:09 Let's assume, I don't think it's as high, half of them are children.

01:19 How many of those eight million people are still here? Do any of you know?

01:25 Okay, how many of those eight million are claiming asylum?

01:36 You don't know? How many of them claim asylum and don't show up for their hearing?

01:45 Nobody knows? How many of them claim asylum, don't show up for the hearing,

01:56 and President Biden has deported them?

01:58 You don't know? How many of them have claimed asylum, shown up for their asylum hearing,

02:10 and been denied asylum, and been deported?

02:14 You don't know? How many of them were from Mexico?

02:25 You don't know? How about 30 percent? That means 70 percent were not, right? Surely you know the

02:37 answer to that. 30 percent minus 100 percent is 70 percent, am I right?

02:44 Okay, 30 percent came from Mexico. Why don't you implement a safe third country policy

02:57 that says under asylum, under our asylum rules, you have to seek asylum in the first safe country.

03:05 So if you come, say, from Venezuela or Nicaragua or another Central American

03:12 country, you have to seek asylum in the first safe country. Why don't you do that?

03:18 And then that would eliminate 70 percent of the eight million. That's 5.6 million.

03:24 Why don't you do that, Mr. Moran?

03:35 Is that a question, sir? Yes.

03:37 All I've been asking are questions. That's beyond the purview of HSI.

03:42 Okay, how about you, Mr. Salazar, your former advisor to the vice president? How come we don't

03:47 do a safe third country agreement? Sir, we're working with our partners in the region. 21

03:52 countries signed on to the Los Angeles Declaration. Have you done a safe third

03:56 country agreement? You've had, what have you been at it, two years? What we are doing is

04:00 working with them to expand legal pathways. Why doesn't President Biden get up in the

04:04 morning tomorrow and say, we're changing the asylum process and we're doing what most other

04:10 countries do, safe third country policy. You have to seek asylum. We support asylum. We have to seek

04:16 asylum in the first safe country. That would eliminate 5.6 million people, boom, done,

04:25 coming into our country illegally, wouldn't it? Sir, I just want to point out Washington—

04:30 Wouldn't it? It would, sir, but there are activities underway.

04:34 Let me ask you this because I'm going to run out of time.

04:36 President Biden and all of you believe in open borders, don't you?

04:41 Don't you? I mean, I ask really basic questions. I don't mean any disrespect. I appreciate you

04:51 being here. And I know you all love our country as we all do. But I believe in straight answers.

05:00 I like straight answers and breakfast food. And there are only two possibilities here.

05:06 Either President Biden and his team believe in open borders or the people that the president

05:13 has put in charge of the immigration policy with this country are not qualified to manage a food

05:18 truck. And nobody's that incompetent. You folks believe in open borders, don't you?

05:26 Sir, I think we believe in secure borders.

05:29 You believe in—you don't even know how—well, I'm going to take 30 more seconds. You don't

05:36 even know how many people have come in illegally since President Biden has been president. You're

05:42 a former senior adviser to the vice president of the United States, Mr. Salazar.

05:47 And you can't even give me a number.

05:49 No, sir.

05:52 That's like going to an oncologist and asking him, "What's cancer?" And he says, "I don't know."

05:57 Give me a break.

06:03 Senator Welch?

06:09 Thank you. I thank the witnesses. You know, just speaking to my friend, Senator Kennedy,

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