Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Thursday he will lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he intends to take up President-elect Donald Trump's plan to reinstate a policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
Paul said he will be the committee's new chair after Republicans won control of the Senate in this month's elections. The new role will put Paul — a limited-government advocate and longtime skeptic of surveillance programs — in charge of a committee with broad jurisdiction over government operations, including the Department of Homeland Security. Paul has been the committee's ranking Republican during Democratic control of the Senate.
“I chose to chair this committee over another because I believe that, for the health of our republic, Congress must stand up once again for its constitutional role,” Paul said in a statement. “This committee’s mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself.”
Paul, in his third term, said he will immediately take up a key part of Trump's immigration policy — forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings in the U.S.
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