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Marjorie is on the right side in this one. Mayorkas is public
enemy number three in the USA, after Biden and Harris.
The case for ousting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
will be tested this week as the House votes on Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene’s article of impeachment.
It’s unclear how much support the Georgia Republican has within her
party, much less among Democrats. Some Republicans have indicated
they want the House to complete a full impeachment inquiry before
holding on a floor vote.
Others say it’s time to show Mr. Mayorkas the door.
“Many times, I’ve extended an olive branch to the Biden
administration on border security solutions, but I have lost faith
in their ability to do their job, enforce the rule of law, and
protect the American homeland. For that reason, I fully support Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resolution,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales, a
Texas Republican representing a district with a longer border than
any other member of Congress.
She filed the article as a “privileged” resolution, which means the
House must take it up in some fashion within two legislative days.
The House is slated to be in session from Monday through Thursday.
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, supports impeachment but isn’t sold on Ms. Greene’s
approach.
“Being the person that she is, she’s trying to leapfrog what is
arguably a process that should follow the committee order,” he said.
Impeachment usually follows an official inquiry. Republicans have
yet to take such a step but have been holding hearings and
conducting what could best be considered inquiry-lite.
The House Homeland Security Committee has produced several reports
detailing Mr. Mayorkas’ “dereliction of duty,” complete with a list
of times Republicans say he has misled Congress and flouted written
laws.
Mr. Stein said Republican leaders must quickly convert those reports
into an inquiry.
“Frankly, we’re a little surprised that it’s taking this long, given
that we’re hemorrhaging people at the border and it’s creating a
crisis for our national security,” he said.
“If you appointed a guy like this as secretary of defense, Hawaii
would now be under Chinese control. What Mayorkas is doing is not a
game. It’s a threat to national security,” Mr. Stein said.
Mark Morgan, a former head of Customs and Border Protection, said
the case against Mr. Mayorkas is clear.
“From Day One, Secretary Mayorkas has abdicated his oath of office,
abused his authority, repeatedly lied to the American people and
Congress, refused to enforce the law, and actively participated in
the unjustified vilification of his own workforce,” he said. “More Americans, as well as migrants, have suffered unimaginable tragedies
and died as a direct result of this man’s America last ideology.
Impeachment is long overdue.”
Immigrant rights advocates said Ms. Greene’s impeachment resolution
is weak and perilous.
“To me, she’s putting the horse before the cart, and the horse is
lame and the cart has a broken wheel anyway,” said Douglas Rivlin,
senior communications director at America’s Voice.
He said Republicans are wrong to say the border is open. He said
more money has been spent on immigration enforcement during Mr.
Biden’s three years than President Trump’s full term.
“Anybody who’s saying the border is open doesn’t really understand
the border; they just understand Republican talking points,” he
said.
Most worrying, Mr. Rivlin said, is the rhetoric. Ms. Greene cited an “invasion” at the border.
Mr. Rivlin said such language has become common among Republicans
and has shown up in the writings of the men convicted of hate-crime
mass shootings in Pittsburgh; Buffalo, New York; and El Paso, Texas.
“The notion that these gunmen had in their head and their
manifestos, that there’s an invasion and they had to stop it
violently. And that, I think, is a very disturbing aspect of the
Republican rhetoric on this issue,” he said.
Ms. Greene’s resolution accuses Mr. Mayorkas of “willful admittance”
of unauthorized migrants and drugs, “allowing the invasion of
approximately 10,000,000 illegals,” including 400,000 unaccompanied
alien children, and overseeing a record amount of fentanyl smuggled
across the border.
She said Mr. Mayorkas flouted laws requiring unauthorized migrants
to be detained while arguing against their deportations and used his “parole” powers to “unlawfully” allow migrants to enter without
legal visas.
“Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, in his inability to enforce the law,
has engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his
duties as a civil officer of the United States,” Ms. Greene’s
impeachment resolution says.
The number of illegal border crossings comes from calculations that
agents and officers have encountered 8 million unauthorized migrants
since January 2021 and an estimate that 1.8 million “gotaways” have
evaded apprehension.
The fentanyl and illegal immigrant children numbers are Homeland
Security’s figures.
Mr. Mayorkas has indeed overseen the largest catch-and-release of
illegal immigrants in history and record low deportations, meaning
an unknown but massive number of them are still in the U.S.
The newcomers have overwhelmed communities, and the department has
little hope of removing them.
Mr. Mayorkas said previous administrations have also been forced
into catch-and-release practices and the only difference now is the
magnitude of the influx.
The secretary has flexed his parole powers far beyond what any other
secretary has done.
The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that Mr. Mayorkas
used parole to admit 1.5 million unauthorized migrants from October
2021 through April 2023. The rate of parole has only increased since
then.
The legality of the parole is before the courts, though
congressional Republicans say they do not doubt that Mr. Mayorkas
has stretched the law beyond the breaking point.
The Homeland Security Department said Republicans are griping about
policy differences, not about the sorts of high crimes or
misdemeanors that the Constitution requires for impeachment.
“While the House majority has wasted months trying to score points
with baseless attacks, Secretary Mayorkas has been doing his job and
working to keep Americans safe,” department spokeswoman Mia
Ehrenberg said.
“Instead of continuing their reckless impeachment charades and
attacks on law enforcement, Congress should work with us to keep our
country safe, build on the progress DHS is making, and deliver
desperately needed reforms for our broken immigration system that
only legislation can fix,” she said.
Mr. Stein said a single issue might be chalked up to policy
differences but the long list of failures means Mr. Mayorkas has
given up on enforcing the law. That, he said, deserves impeachment.
RetiredUSAFVeteran
2h
Wake up morons. There isn't time for a committee inquiry. No need
for BS podium posturing by Poly-tick-shuns. Impeach this Cuban-
American disgrace NOW!
JohnHolliday
5h
"Impeachment usually follows an official inquiry. Republicans have
yet to take such a step but have been holding hearings and
conducting what could best be considered inquiry-lite."
JUDAS H. PRIEST! How many more millions have to storm and swarm the
border? How many more times does he have he have to bloviate,
filibuster, obfuscate and perjure himself before Congressional
Committees before it is clear that he is derelict in his duties and
should be removed forthwith?
And once that is accomplished, how soon can we proceed with the
trial for treason and its prescribed punishment?
DavidNester
6h
He won't be impeached. But he should be put in prison. He is a
traitor to the country and his hands are dirty with the deaths of
100,000 Americans that have died from fentanyl. And an estimated
80,000 children he helped put into child sex trafficking rings.
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