Witnesses are slated to testify about the Mexican border crisis to the powerful Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1. “The hearing, ‘Biden’s Border Crisis—Part One,’ will examine border security, national security, and how fentanyl has impacted American lives,” the committee’s Republicans said in a Jan. 30 news release.
The first three witnesses: Dale Lynn Carruthers, a judge in Terrell County, Texas; Mark Dannels, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona; and Brandon Dunn, co-founder of Forever 15 Project that seeks to prevent fentanyl deaths such as that of Dunn’s 15-year-old son Noah Adam Rodriguez. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden downplayed the chaos related to the record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican border into the United States. In a meeting with the Mexican president, Biden stated that his administration had made great strides toward resolving “irregular migration.”…