EXCLUSIVE — A senior House Republican will introduce legislation to ban migrants from flying into the United States from abroad or from passing through airport TSA checkpoints upon release at the border if they do not have the same documents that the general traveling public must…

While Americans must show proper identification to board their flights, illegal immigrants are not required to do so. My bill ends this egregious practice. Read more about my VALID Act here:

INBOX: 43 Senate Republicans demand Mayorkas impeachment trial move forward

Scoop: Illegal immigrants would be banned from boarding commercial flights under forthcoming GOP bill washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigra… via Rep. Mark Green Mike Lee

Sen. John Kennedy goes off on Mayorkas for border crisis: ‘Gives me no joy to say this’ washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigra… John Kennedy

Wray tells House appropriators: 'We need [Mexico's] help cracking down on the cartels harder. We need help rooting out labs where the poison is being produced. We need help stopping the purchase and influx of precursor chemicals from the Chinese, from the PRC.'

NOW: FBI Director Christopher Wray warns House apropos about not reauthorizing FISA

'Failure to reauthorize 702 — or gutting it with some kind of new warrant requirement — would be dangerous and put American lives at risk.'

Wray: FBI’s ‘most immediate concern’ is homegrown attacks inspired by Middle East washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense… via Mike Brest

Reupping this development yesterday

It was on Mayorkas's 28th appearance before Congress in 3 years that he said the situation at the border constituted a 'crisis'

Iowa signs into law its own version of Texas SB 4
washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigra… via Jack Birle

By DHS’s own numbers, Mayorkas has testified before Congress 27 times in three years.

This was his 28th hearing, and the first time he’s said the border is in “crisis.”

Mayorkas admitted before Congress for the first time today that the border is in crisis

His admission comes at a time when migrant encounters are ironically lower than most of the past 36 months. Why is it a crisis at 137,000 arrests in March but not every other month he…

UPDATE: Gaetz hits back at McCarthy but doesn't deny McCarthy's allegation that Gaetz, a 41-year-old man, 'slept with a 17-year-old.'

The age of consent in Gaetz's home state of Florida is 18 years old.

McCarthy: 'I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker: It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.'

DHS Sec. Mayorkas asked about Fox News report that he told Border Patrol agents 85% of migrants arrested at border are released into the US

Mayorkas says he has visited the border “so very many times” as secretary it’s hard to recall that conversation

Griff Jenkins…

JUST IN: For the first time in 38 months since Biden took office, DHS Sec. Mayorkas testifies under oath before Congress that the southern border is in “crisis,” after being asked by Ashley Hinson in House hearing.

On February 11, 2024, he did tell NBC News that it was a…

'Anyone who does Schumer’s bidding and votes to dismiss or table will be complicit in his coverup and the border crisis itself....Heritage Action stands with Americans demanding accountability...”

Just in from Anna Giaritelli: washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/29…

“Lawmakers who claim that impeaching Secretary Mayorkas is a waste of time or the Senate is too busy to hold a trial are not only absurd, they’re massively out-of-touch with the voters who sent them to Washington.” @RyanLWalker

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The Texas Capitol faded into darkness as the solar eclipse reaches totality.

There’s a Washington Post “democracy does in darkness” joke to be made here.