Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Tuesday took aim at Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over a new report which detailed a surge in migrant child smuggling and exploitation during the Biden administration -- with the Republican lawmaker suggesting that it amounted to an impeachable offense.
Hawley, at a Senate Homeland Security hearing, quizzed Mayorkas about a New York Times report showing how the 2021 migration surge resulted in many children being placed in brutal forced labor jobs across the U.S.
The Times reported this week that staffers in the administration had ignored signs of "explosive" growth in child labor as more than 250,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the U.S. in the past two years. A number have been forced into indentured servitude to pay back smugglers.
