Hawley: Illegal-alien Ibarra Authorized for Work After Arrest for Harming Child; Mayorkas Perjured Himself Twice

The Biden administration gave a work permit to illegal alien Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan “migrant” charged in the murder of nursing student Laken Riley, after he was arrested in New York for harming a child.

Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley revealed the latest on the Biden “migrant” during a brutal committee interrogation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Hawley also alleged that Mayorkas perjured himself in two other committee appearances by giving different answers about the Ibarra case that in turn differed from answers he gave Hawley.

The Parole File

Hawley roasted Mayorkas during a hearing of the U.S. Homeland Security Committee. 

After Hawley said Riley’s murder wasn’t Ibarra’s first crime in the country, Mayorkas said he wouldn’t “speak about the facts of the case because there is an ongoing criminal investigation.”

Asked whether he had read Ibarra’s file, Mayorkas said the same thing.

That’s when Hawley revealed Mayorkas’ shifting answers:

This is a new answer today. You’ve changed your answers all over the map on this and it looks like to me, you just don’t want to answer the question. Two days ago … you were asked about this in the House Homeland Security Committee. I’ve got the transcript right here in front of me. You were asked the same question … why was he paroled?

You said, “I don’t know.” You said “I don’t know. I don’t have the case details with me today.”

But on April 10, Hawley continued, Alabama GOP Senator Katie Britt asked the same question: “Why was Jose Ibarra paroled into the United States?”

But Mayorkas answered differently:

You said, and I quote, “Ranking Member Britt, there was no derogatory information of which we were aware.” So you were happy to comment on the case then, on April the 10th. By April the 16th you had developed amnesia, and today you say you just won’t comment.

Hawley then explained why Mayorkas refused to answer his questions. Neither Britt nor GOP North Carolina Representative Dan Bishop had Ibarra’s parole file. But Hawley did. 

“We all know that the reason he was paroled into this country was because [of the] lack of detention capacity, which, as you and I both know, is not a valid reason under the statute. … Here it is,” Hawley said, quoting the file: “Subject was paroled due to detention capacity at the Central Processing Center in El Paso, Texas.”

Again Hawley asked Mayorkas whether he had read the parole file. Mayorkas refused to answer. 

“You don’t want to because it is an absolutely damning indictment of your policies,” Hawley continued.

Then came the accusation of perjury:

Let’s just review Jose Ibarra … and how he came to be here. On September the 8th, 2022, he was encountered by United States Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, and was paroled into the United States due to lack of detention capacity. … That is not permitted under the statute. You and I both know you know this. You knew it when you were talking to Congressman Bishop. You knew it when you were testifying to Senator Britt, and you know it today. You’ve just just never wanted to cop to it because the statute doesn’t permit it. And so you lied to Congressman Bishop and you lied to Senator Britt. And now you are hiding behind the ongoing prosecution excuse, because it’s the last one left to you, because you testified falsely under oath.

Hawley returned to the parole file, which said Ibarra reported for a biometric appointment in New York. Fingerprints revealed his criminal history. On September 14, 2023, he was arrested for harming a child. But that charge was expunged, Hawley continued:

Nothing is done to this guy. He had a criminal record to start with. He’s in the country on illegal grounds. You have falsely and illegally allowed him in. He commits a crime against a child. He’s not prosecuted; it’s expunged.

In November — get this — in November, Ibarra files an application for employment authorization, and unbelievably, on December the 9th, 2023, it’s approved. So this is your policies in action, Mr. Secretary. A criminal is permitted into this country on grounds flatly not permitted, flatly contradictory to the statute. He commits a crime against a child, and then he gets a work permit.

When Mayorkas said Hawley “misstated some facts,” the senator replied that he “read from the parole file. … I’m reading from — it is right here. … You have lied repeatedly to Congress and to the American people about this.”

Hawley also brought up the case of 12-year-old Travis Wolfe of St. Charles, Missouri. Biden “migrant” Endrina Bracho, yet another Venezuelan, plowed into the Wolfe family the day before Travis’s 12th birthday, police allege, killing the boy.

Hawley revealed that she too was detained at the border last year, then released … again thanks to Biden and Mayorkas.

The Ibarra Brothers

Hawley didn’t ask Mayorkas about Jose Ibarra’s dangerous brothers, whom border officials also “paroled” at the border.

During the investigation of Riley’s murder, Diego Ibarra was arrested for using a fake green card to get a job. He had also been arrested for shoplifting, drunk driving, and driving without a license.

Argenis Ibarra might be worse. A violent criminal who attacked a border agent, federal authorities allege, he is linked to the murderous Tren de Aragua (TdA), the largest organized crime outfit in Venezuela.

Members of that gang are responsible for a crime wave in New York City and the beating of two cops.

H/T: Breitbart