House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Thursday a broad probe into the chaos at the southern border and said he’ll give top Border Patrol agents a chance to explain directly to the public how bad things have gotten.
Mr. Comer scheduled a hearing for early February and invited the chief agents in four Border Patrol sectors to testify.
He also fired off a new list of demands to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seeking transparency in how the Biden administration has run the border over the last two years. That includes requests for how many people have been caught and released, how much of the department’s job has been outsourced to nongovernmental agencies and how badly morale has suffered among Border Patrol agents.