Nancy Mace To Hold Hearing Seeking To Leverage Tech For Increased Deportations

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace is set to hold a hearing seeking to leverage the use of technology to increase the pace of deportations by the Donald Trump administration.

Mace, who chairs the cybersecurity and information technology committee, part of the House Oversight Committee, will hold the hearing on Tuesday, March 4.

"While the Biden administration intentionally created the worst border crisis in our nation's history and allowed criminal aliens to pour into our communities, this body is committed to identifying innovative avenues to deploy cutting-edge technology to help federal immigration agents get criminal aliens off the streets so they can be deported," Mace said when announcing her initiative.

There are three witnesses schedule to testify, according to the Washington Times: John Fabbricatore, a former senior official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation division; Doug Gilmer, a former special agent at ICE's Homeland Security Investigations; and Simon Hankinson, a border specialist at the Heritage Foundation.

Mace will have a busy week, as the next day she will also take part in a hearing aimed at grilling Democratic mayors leading sanctuary cities.

In a video published on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee anticipated the hearing, which will seek to question the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City.

The video features comments from President Donald Trump claiming that the cities are harboring undocumented immigrants who committed crimes overlapped with comments from the mayors about their willingness to enforce their sanctuary status. It goes on to focus on crimes committed by migrants before highlighting subpoenas sent to the four mayors: Michelle Wu, Brandon Johnson, Mike Johnston and Eric Adams.

Boston, Denver and Chicago have stood by their intention to keep being a sanctuary city despite Trump's threat to withhold federal funding from them. New York City, historically welcoming, now stands in contrast as Mayor Eric Adams is taking a harder line, especially after the Trump DOJ directed prosecutors to drop corruption charges against him. He has been subpoenaed nonetheless.