These 6 GOP Senators Who Voted to Confirm Mayorkas Won’t Condemn Him After Revelation in False ‘Whipping’ Charge
Posted on AllSides October 24th, 2022
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The six Senate Republicans who voted to confirm Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined to criticize him after the revelation that he knew Border Patrol agents didn’t “whip” Haitian migrants before he publicly spoke as if they did.
Other members of Congress, however, are calling for Mayorkas to resign or be impeached after an explosive email was unearthed by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)
The email shows that Mayorkas’ top media spokeswoman had told him Sept. 24, 2021, that no whipping by Border Patrol...
