Kennedy: migrants congressional district reapportionment? Mayorkas: preposterous & disrespectful

Senator John Kennedy (R., La.) described the porous southern border during yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Kennedy asked DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas whether it’s true that illegal immigrants are counted for purposes of congressional district reapportionment and in allocating electoral votes. Initially, Mayorkas responded that he didn’t understand the question but then huffed that the question was “preposterous” and “disrespectful.” He declined to answer Kennedy’s question.

Kennedy questions Mayorkas on border crisis in Appropriations

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Kennedy: migrants congressional district reapportionment? Mayorkas: preposterous & disrespectful

Key Points

Senator John Kennedy (R

• ) described the porous southern border during yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee
• Kennedy asked DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas whether it’s true that illegal immigrants are counted for purposes of congressional district reapportionment and in allocating electoral votes
• Initially, Mayorkas responded that he didn’t understand the question but then huffed that the question was “preposterous” and “disrespectful

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• The number of illegal immigrants that you and the president allow into our country counts for congressional district reapportionment
• Senator, I’m not sure I understand your question, but I can surely share with you that I disagree with its phrasing
• Secretary, that the number of illegal immigrants that you and President Biden have allowed into our country counts for allocating electoral votes
• The notion, Senator, that we intend to allow illegal immigration is nothing short of preposterous
• And it’s a fact, and you know it, and I know it, that the more people you allow into our country illegally, the more people are counted for reapportionment
• And the more people that you allow into our country illegally, the more people are counted for allocating electoral votes
• Now, maybe that’s a coincidence, but that’s a fact
• The only people I know in this country who are better off today than they were four years ago are illegal immigrants
• And a vast majority of the American people don’t trust you
• Now, my Democratic colleagues are going to try to sweep your impeachment under the rug and violate 200 years of Senate precedent in doing it

Full transcript: 455 words transcribed via Whisper AI.