House Republicans have asked the Department of Homeland Security to explain how it will protect thousands of domestic flights this holiday travel season after pulling nearly all air marshals down to the southern border.

Seven GOP lawmakers sent Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a letter on Monday requesting that the department turn over information about the Transportation Security Administration’s decision to require Federal Air Marshal Service officers to help Border Patrol agents amid the crisis, according to a copy obtained by the Washington Examiner.
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