#shorts During U.S. Senate hearing, Senator Lankford said: “II was shocked to see in your budget request a reduction in requests for new detention space or maintaining detention space. So, while we have got this incredible backlog in the non-detained docket, you’re actually requesting fewer spaces when we have an acceleration of the number of people here. What am I missing?”

Mayorkas: “Um, of four responses if I made number one, we are not seeking a reduction in detention space. What we have done is place the funding for additional detention space in a contingency fund …”

Lankford: “The detention numbers should be at epic levels, a historic number. So, I’m a little confused why we may need to flex onto other things when even your testimony earlier said we anticipate, after Title 42 ends, we will see a surge again of individuals. So, there’s an anticipation of a surge of more individuals coming across the border, yet you’ve moved the detention dollars to a contingency fund to say we may or may not need those.”

Mayorkas: “Well, that’s speaking of fiscal year 2024, not fiscal year 2023. We are hopeful that the measures that we are taking will diminish the number of encounters at our Southern border.

On 4/18/2023, Lankford Challenges Mayorkas for Hiding the Truth on the Border from the American People.
During U.S. Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, U.S. Senator James Lankford questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the Biden Administration’s budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/bHxULGT5n54
Shocked to see reduction for new detention space or maintaining detention space A: diminish encounter