Mayorkas' Days Are Numbered, GOP Just Filed Impeachment Papers- So Long Sucker!
The current crisis at the US-Mexican border is an utter disaster, and it’s all because of the Biden administration’s handling of the situation. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the one who is supposed to be at the helm of this mess, but his policies have been widely panned by border state lawmakers who are now demanding he “pivot” how he is handling the situation.
In a letter to Mayorkas, 11 Texas GOP lawmakers called out their concerns about the record levels of illegal immigration happening under the Biden administration, and Mayorkas’s lack of action to stop it. They made it clear that the influx of illegal immigrants is unfairly burdening the state of Texas, and that the Biden administration needs to take responsibility.
The lawmakers accused Mayorkas of willfully failing to maintain border security and violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006, a federal law that requires the DHS secretary to secure the nation's international land and maritime borders.
According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources, the number of migrant encounters in December surpassed 250,000 for the first time on record. This doesn’t even include the more than 70,000 “gotaways” at the border in December alone.
The Biden administration has blamed poverty, corruption and climate change for fueling the crisis, and has sought to expand legal pathways for asylum. However, Republicans have argued that the real issue is the Biden administration's refusal to enforce immigration laws. After all, the Trump administration was able to secure the borders in a way that the Biden administration is not.
It’s time for the Biden administration to stop encouraging illegal immigration and start enforcing immigration laws. The only way to make our borders secure is to give our border patrol and customs agents the funding they need, and to update our decades-old immigration laws so that they incentive legal immigration and disincentives illegal immigration.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Mayorkas is willing to change his stance on the issue anytime soon. It’s clear that the Biden administration and the mainstream media are more interested in pushing their own agendas than they are in actually securing our borders.
That’s why House Speaker Kevin McCarthy just put Georgia Rep Majory Taylor Green on the Homeland security committee. She is in a prime position to move for impeachment of Mayorkas, and it looks like she plans to take advantage of that opportunity—As of Wednesday, the GOP has filed articles to impeach the failed Mayorkas.