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GOP Rep Goes Off on Democrat Defending Mayorkas: ‘I Live in a Border State – You Don’t’

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Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, left, confronts New York Rep. Dan Goldman during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday.

A confrontation between two members of the House Homeland Security Committee was a perfect example of how bureaucrats imposing flawed immigration policies in faraway D.C. often becomes a life-threatening proposition for Americans in border states.

During a Wednesday committee hearing, GOP Texas Rep. Michael McCaul called out Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his “complicity in the unprecedented border crisis,” McCaul said in a news release.

“Sir, I would argue that you have been aiding and abetting the deaths and the criminal enterprise that has occurred in this nation,” the congressman said.

Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York was aghast at those comments and called McCaul’s criticism “unwarranted.”

“I think it’s incredibly dangerous to accuse Secretary Mayorkas of aiding and abetting crimes.

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