A Republican senator publicly scolded Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden Cabinet official who has overseen the Department of Homeland Security throughout the border crisis, adding that people did not need a Senate impeachment trial to know he was guilty.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) delivered a solemn rebuke of Mayorkas during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon and told the DHS secretary that his three years in office had rendered illegal immigrants in a better position than U.S. citizens as a result of the more than 8 million illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border in that time.