WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday launched the opening salvo in what is sure to be many hearings related to the southwest border this year.
The House Judiciary Committee had expected to hear from Dale Lynn Carruthers, the Terrell County judge who has been among Texas border community officials declaring migrant surges as an “invasion.”
The committee’s chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, announced at the start of the hearing that Carruthers was not able to travel to Washington from Texas because of the ongoing ice storm in the state, but he summarized her prepared testimony: that her once-safe community now lives in fear with a proliferation of home burglaries and daily high-speed car chases.
