The House Homeland Security Committee on Sunday released draft articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The first article of impeachment against Mr. Mayorkas is “deliberate and systematic refusal to comply with the law,” and the second article is “violation of the public trust.” According to a copy obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The committee recently held two hearings on impeachment proceedings centering on Mr. Mayorkas' handling of the southern border, where Republican attorneys general, legal experts, mothers who lost children to fentanyl and members of the MS-13 gang I heard testimony from members of (Related: Agents 'never' want to cut Greg Abbott's razor wire, Border Patrol union head says)
The first article addresses the record levels of immigrants entering the country illegally and being released into the country, which occurred under Mr. Mayorkas' watch.One of the ways the committee believes Mr. Mayorkas played a role in this matter is in September 2021. memo In it, he directed immigration authorities to restrict immigration.
“The fact that an individual is a removable noncitizen should not be the sole basis for enforcement action against that individual,” Mayorkas wrote in a previous memo.
Border Patrol recorded more than 2.2 million encounters with immigrants illegally crossing the southern border in fiscal year 2022, and more than 2 million in fiscal year 2023. according to to federal data. From October to December, there were more than 629,000 illegal encounters at the southern border.
The second article states that Mayorkas says the southern border is “secure” and “as good as it was before,” that the border is “closed,” and that DHS has “operational control” of the area. , alleges he lied to Congress. Part of the article points to past statements by Mayorkas that support a false story accusing Border Patrol agents of “whipping” illegal immigrants in September 2021.
A subsequent federal investigation found that the agents did not use whiplash.
“These articles provide clear, convincing and irrefutable grounds for impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He has deliberately and systematically refused to abide by the immigration laws enacted by Congress. In a statement to the DCNF, the committee's chairman, Mark Green, said he betrayed the public's trust by knowingly making false statements to Congress and the American people and obstructing Congress' oversight of his department. Stated.
“These facts are indisputable, and the consequences of his illegal actions have had dire consequences for our nation. Empowered and wealthy cartels, mass fentanyl poisonings, suspects on terrorist watch lists. A surge in immigrants, an increase in criminal illegal aliens who harm our communities, and traumatized and exploited immigrants will be the legacy of Secretary Mayorkas' open borders,” Green said.
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 8: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas waits for the start of a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building at the Capitol on November 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
DHS believes the commission's actions are “unconstitutional and unsubstantiated,” according to an agency memo obtained by DCNF.
“This price increase is just the same political maneuver by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee (CHS). They don’t want to solve the problem. They want to campaign on it. That’s why they “They undermined efforts to reach a bipartisan solution and ignored facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in pursuit of a baseless impeachment of Mayorkas,” the memo said.
“This travesty of impeachment distracts from other important national security priorities and the work Congress needs to do to actually fix our broken immigration laws,” the memo said. .
The committee is scheduled to mark up the articles of impeachment on Tuesday.
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