GOP Lawmaker To DHS IG: Is Mayorkas Being Probed For Criminal Acts?

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During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) asked Inspector General of the U.S. Department Of Homeland Security Joseph Cuffari about a potential investigation into former Department Of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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00:00thank you mr chairman mr kafari thanks for thanks for being here and i associate myself with the

00:06comments regarding your career with uh representative biggs and the chairman himself

00:12thank you for what you do the numbers in this this subject are staggering 448 000 uacs transferred

00:23to hhs of which 31 000 sponsors have have sponsor addresses that are blank undeliverable missing

00:32it's 31 000 kids at least no clue where they are we have reports of uac's being placed in sponsors

00:41in gang controlled areas rundown apartment complexes dilapidated motels 14 500 alone were

00:49released to unrelated sponsors unrelated meaning they didn't have family members i mean that's

00:55fourteen thousand five hundred souls um secretary mayorkas in 2021 issued a memorandum that

01:05deprioritized uac cases directing federal off officials to focus enforcement resources on

01:11other categories of removable aliens uh mr kafari the dhs office of inspector general

01:18investigators have statutory law enforcement authority including the power to make arrest

01:24execute warrants and carry firearms i just wonder at what point if there is a point did the secretary's

01:34actions reach the level of child child endangerment child abandonment child abuse did did anybody in your

01:43office ever investigate or consider investigating secretary mayorkas for criminal activity in this

01:50regard uh not to my knowledge mr perry what would it take is there anything that it would take um

01:58i mean at what level i mean these are these are so-called policies but the result of which if you

02:05if you as a parent as a guardian took a child and abandoned it on the street these are thousands in any

02:13case that were abandoned somewhere by policy if you if you did that as an individual you would likely be

02:22charged with child endangerment is there i mean it is and i know it's a tough call here because these are

02:28policies does the oig have the authority to make that call the oig has the authority to do administrative

02:38as well as criminal investigations of departmental employees or contractors the u.s attorney the department

02:45of justice would be the entity that would decide whether those actions were a criminal violation or

02:53prosecutable do you know if did you or anybody in your office ever consider a criminal referral in

03:00these cases i know that the report i think came out in march of 2025 regarding most of this but

03:06obviously the investigation was ongoing throughout the biden administration was there ever a consideration

03:13a discussion whatsoever regarding the secretary or those carrying out the policies that led to

03:20four hundred and forty eight thousand unaccompanied minors um that would be considered criminal activity

03:29relating to child endangerment not to our knowledge not to my knowledge mr perry looking back i mean is

03:37that something that should have been considered is that i mean does is because it's policy does that mean

03:43it's okay or that is something that can never be considered uh if it's policy the the department of

03:50uh homeland security ig's office policy is not to look into policies or to charge individuals with

03:57violations of policies that are established by the department well i i would say this look we appreciate

04:06your service and you know you're fighting for every child that was out there but i think that these

04:11activities do rise to the the uh level of at least consideration of criminal activity

04:18um because because because the results lead the actions uh the of the policy led to the results of

04:27having these children of which now many thousands are literally unfindable and likely in the hand of

04:34hands of tracker traffickers and have been since they've been here those were policies that were

04:40orchestrated by design by individuals primarily the secretary of homeland security and gleaned these results and

04:48and and there has been no accountability and without criminal referrals unfortunately there's likely never to be

04:56appropriate accountability with that mr chairman for the time being i yield the gentleman

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