New legislation set to be introduced in Congress would set a deadline for the Department of Homeland Security to release monthly border encounter statistics, and slash the salary of the agency’s secretary if it’s not met, The Daily Wire has learned.
While border encounters have spiked to all-time highs, DHS under the recently impeached Alejandro Mayorkas has routinely failed to release border encounter statistics in a timely manner — in the past six months, encounter figures have been kept secret up to three weeks after the end of last month, and are almost always dumped on Fridays or Saturdays, when the unflattering figures are less likely to be widely reported in the media.
The new legislation from Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-OK), however, would require the agency to release monthly border encounter numbers within seven days of the end of each month. Failure to release the…
