Homeland Security Secretary Dismisses Public Concern Over Effectiveness Of Secret Service

Last Saturday former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated during one of his rallies. This week Secret Service agents are under fire for letting it happen, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the forefront.

The public has also started questioning why ladies are allowed to work in any regulation enforcement role. 

To these comments as well as other floods of criticism, Mayorkas issued a memo slamming the “baseless and insulting” allegations that women had no business on Trump’s security detail for his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

“In the days following the attempted assassination of former President Trump, some people have made public statements questioning the presence of women in law enforcement, including in the United States Secret Service,” Mayorkas’ memo began. “These assertions are baseless and insulting.”

Mayorkas asserted that women in law enforcement perform their duties with honor, oftentimes putting themselves and their communities at large before anything else.

“We in the United States Department of Homeland Security – the largest law enforcement organization in the federal government — will, with great pride, focus, and devotion to mission, continue to recruit, retain, and elevate women in our law enforcement ranks. Our department will be the better for it, and our country more secure,” Mayorkas concluded.

After the shooting, for instance, critics wondered whether Secret Service Director Kim Cheatles’ focus on hiring more female agents might have come at a cost to her main mission. Another comment was made about the female agents at the Pennsylvania rally being a smaller build than Trump.

Cheatle is due to testify before Congress on Monday, and Mayorkas faces a subpoena – but the questions about what happened have been far from answered.