Arizona lawmakers consider impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorcas
phoenix – Ann Arizona Lawmakers are leading an indictment to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas. southern border.
Congressman Andy Biggs announced on February 1 that it will introduce new articles of impeachment to the United States Capitol. This is his second time Biggs has attempted this, and while it failed in his 2021 when Democrats took control of the House, things could be different this time with Republicans in control.
“I think everyone is pretty clear that there is a crisis on the southern border. Some of my friends across the street are against it. No,” he says.
Biggs considered Mayorkas’ inaction at the southern border a dereliction of duty and addressed new articles of impeachment against the DHS Director.
“Let’s look at the policy. What was the policy in place before Secretary Mayorcas came? Build the fence, finish building the wall. He stopped it,” Biggs says.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dunnells is moving his jurisdiction to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about what many of its leaders now call a “border crisis.” increase.
“I spoke on behalf of the sheriffs of this country, but I also spoke about local law enforcement optics that we see at the border,” Dunnells said.
Sheriffs say sharing perspectives with people in the U.S. capital, 2,000 miles from the Arizona border, is productive and beneficial.
“I want to bring reality to what’s happening in rural counties like Cochise. ‘Oh, I didn’t know that. Now we’re sharing it.’ Talk to them about what’s going on,” said Dunnells.
Elected officials were not the only ones heard by lawmakers.
“One of the witnesses today, a father who lost his 15-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose,[he]talked deeply about drugs coming into the southwestern border. Fentanyl is the star,” said Dunnells. said Mr.
So far, 15 members of Congress have supported the move to impeach Biggs. Mayorkas seems openly unfazed by the effort.
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