{"id":596164,"date":"2023-10-31T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hawley-mayorkas-get-personal-at-hearing-despicable\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:59:07","slug":"hawley-mayorkas-get-personal-at-hearing-despicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hawley-mayorkas-get-personal-at-hearing-despicable\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hawley, Mayorkas get personal at hearing: \u2018Despicable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/IMG_0539.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A GOP senator\u2019s focus on antisemitic comments from one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee spurred forceful pushback from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who said it was \u201cdespicable\u201d to suggest the views are representative of his agency.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) zeroed in on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> comments from a DHS employee made in the wake of the Hamas-Israel war who has since been placed on administrative leave. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>While Mayorkas declined to answer further questions about the review of their employment, Hawley told the secretary, who is Jewish, that it was \u201cdespicable\u201d that he was failing to address his questions.<\/p>\n<p>The episode spurred an emotional response from the mild mannered secretary, who has begun to more directly address often personal attacks from GOP members of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber One: what I found despicable is the implication that this language, tremendously odious, actually could be emblematic of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security,\u201d Mayorkas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber Two: Senator Hawley takes an adversarial <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to me in this question, and perhaps he doesn\u2019t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not expect an apology. But I did want to say what I just articulated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chair Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said the committee needed to move on when Hawley asked for a chance to respond, and the Missouri senator did not raise the issue again during his second line of questioning.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou have employees who are celebrating genocide, and you are saying it\u2019s despicable for me to ask the question,\u201d Hawley told Mayorkas during their exchange.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. 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