Jim Jordan instructs Garland and Mayorkas to keep their records on border when leaving office

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to keep their records related to the border crisis, as they prepare to leave office next year.

The requests were the latest signal that the committee plans to continue its investigations into the Biden-Harris administration's alleged failures. The committee sent requests to officials in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last week.

Jordan expressed concern in the letters that the departments would purge the documents, communications, and information that the committee has repeatedly requested when they leave office.

“This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to the Biden-Harris Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law,” Jordan wrote in both letters. 

"You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information ... that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry." 

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.