House Republicans have finally had enough of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ refusal to enforce U.S. immigration law and will likely impeach him.
On January 30, the House Homeland Security Committee will mark up articles of impeachment.
The committee’s announcement followed a five-phase probe into Mayorkas’ failure to secure the border and uphold his oath office.
The Reports
The reports that detail Mayorkas’ malfeasance are devastating. The first showed that Mayorkas has ignored, abused, or refused to enforce eight laws, ignored four court rulings, and told at least 24 lies to Congress and 50 lies to the Americans.
That report accused him of “dereliction of duty” in abusing his authority to “parole” illegal aliens, refusing to deport and detain illegals, and violating the law that prohibits bringing and harboring illegals.
The Phase 2 report demonstrated that Mayorkas has permitted drug and alien-smuggling cartels to seize control of the border. Moreover, he has permitted would-be terrorists to enter the country in record numbers.
“Numerous law enforcement veterans, local officials, and national security experts agree that the cartels have seized an unprecedented level of control at the Southwest border,” the report said. Frighteningly, witnesses told the committee, the cartels have “total control”:
During a July 2023 hearing, the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., asked witnesses if the cartels have gained “unprecedented access and networking within the United States of America.” Derek Maltz, former special agent in charge of the DEA’s Special Operations Division, and Jaeson Jones, a former captain in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, with years of experience in combating the cartels, answered in the affirmative. They further confirmed that cartel control increased “incredibly” during Mayorkas’ tenure, with Maltz later testifying the cartels “have total control.”
The Phase 3 and Phase 4 reports detailed the “human costs” of his failure to close the border, along with the devastating financial impact to American taxpayers.
The third blamed Mayorkas for the fentanyl crisis affecting communities nationwide and the crimes illegals commit here because Mayorkas permitted them to enter. The report showed that the arrest and deportation of illegal-alien criminals “dropped precipitously.” It also detailed the suffering of illegals exploited by human smugglers and sex traffickers.
Citing the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the fourth report explained “that illegal immigration’s annual net burden on the U.S. economy as of 2022 totaled more than $150 billion. In particular, researchers found that illegal immigration imposes around $182 billion in federal, state, and local costs, while illegal aliens pay approximately $31 billion in total tax contributions.”
Worse still:
This net cost of illegal immigration is greater than the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of 15 different states. Illegal immigration costs every American taxpayer a net average of $956 — or $1,156 before the taxes paid by illegal aliens are factored in. These costs also represent a substantial increase from previous studies. FAIR’s 2017 cost study found illegal immigration imposed topline costs of $135 billion, with around $19 billion paid in taxes by illegal aliens.
The Phase 5 report showed that he permitted waste, fraud, and abuse at DHS.
But none of these crimes are surprising. The Phase 1 report recalled of Mayorkas’ tenure with the the Obama administration:
In 2015, the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report finding that Mayorkas exerted “improper influence in the normal processing and adjudication of applications and petitions in a program administered by USCIS.” The watchdog’s investigation found that Mayorkas had used his influence to secure EB-5 visas for foreign investors after lower-ranking USCIS officials denied the applications, and after Mayorkas was lobbied by powerful Democratic officials to grant the requests.
Five Resolutions
Even Democrats seem fed up with the unindicted visa fraudster.
“Our thorough and fair investigation exposed Secretary Mayorkas’ abuse of power and refusal to comply with the law,” committee chairman Mark Green of Tennessee said:
In November, 201 Democrats voted to refer articles of impeachment against the secretary to our Committee and, having completed impeachment hearings earlier this month, we plan to mark up those articles next week.
In the Committee’s impeachment hearings, members received testimony from top legal officials that detailed how Secretary Mayorkas has failed to uphold his oath of office, how his actions and decisions rise to the level of impeachable offenses, and how his misconduct is costing states across the country.
GOP legislators have introduced five impeachment measures. Only one, from Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, landed in front of Green’s committee. The rest went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Despite this news, the man who gave Mayorkas the power to open the border and ignore the law, President Joe Biden, apparently won’t be impeached for it. Yet everything Mayorkas did he did with Biden’s approval.
Instead, Republicans want to impeach Biden for “corruption” linked his son’s planetary business empire.
The news that Mayorkas’ impeachment will move ahead came days after the family of one his victims — Kayla Hamilton, raped and murdered by an illegal-alien MS-13 gang member released to run free — sued the federal government for $100 million.
