House Homeland Security Committee to hold first field hearing on border crisis in Texas

The House Homeland Security Committee will hold an in-person field hearing at the southern border on March 15 in McAllen, Texas, Fox News Digital has learned.

The hearing will take place on March 15 in McAllen, Texas and is in line with Republican promises to zero in on the ongoing border crisis now into its third year. Speaker Kevin McCarthy had promised to hold hearings in-person at the border to bring greater attention to the historic surge. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

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There were over 1.7 million migrant encounters in FY2021, and more than 2.3 million in FY2022. FY2023 has been on track to beat those numbers.  The Biden administration has said they are facing a hemisphere-wide crisis and have also blamed Congress for failing to pass a sweeping immigration bill to fix what it says is a "broken" immigration system. That legislation has struggled to find GOP support gives its inclusion of a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.