Rep. Pfluger Grills Mayorkas, Wray Over Whereabouts of People on Terror Watch List

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Nov. 15, Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray on whether their agencies were searching for or detaining people who were on the federal government’s terror watch list.

Mr. Pfluger particularly criticized Mr. Mayorkas for his “mindset.” “We started this hearing by listening to Secretary Mayorkas talk about climate change as a threat to our country and obscure policies that need reauthorization, but not yet one mention of the Southwest border and the 169-plus known or suspected terrorists that have entered this country,” Mr. Pfluger said at the beginning of his questioning.

He also asked about the greatly increased number of Chinese nationals who have entered the United States illegally, citing DHS’s data.