House Republicans confronted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for setting millions of illegal immigrants free in the United States instead of requiring that they be detained while awaiting their day in immigration court.

During a Tuesday appropriations hearing on Capitol Hill, GOP lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee challenged Mayorkas’ claim that his department would like to see more foreign nationals detained but lacks the financial resources to do so.

“There are thousands of beds available per day, roughly 9,000 on average in FY 2022, 3,000 a day in FY 2023,” Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., said, according to the Washington Examiner. “Yet the arguments before the Supreme Court and in your testimony before here to Congress had been that the resources are overwhelmed and therefore we have to just catch and release these people into the country.”

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