by R. Cort Kirkwood
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee voted 18-15 yesterday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to enforce immigration laws and permitting an illegal-alien invasion of the United States.
Led by Chairman Mark Green, the committee voted, as expected, along party lines.
The vote in committee sets the table for a vote by the full House next week, after which the charge will go to the U.S. Senate.
The Articles
The 20-page indictment of the Cuban immigrant alleges that Mayorkas violated his oath of office in that he “repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration” and permitted millions of illegals to enter the United States and remain here “unlawfully.”
Mayorkas perpetuated a “scheme” by which he “refused to comply with the detention mandate” in the Immigration and Nationality Act. It requires “all applicants for admission who are “not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted … shall be detained for a [removal] proceeding.”
“Instead of complying with this requirement,” the first article alleges, Mayorkas “implemented a catch and release scheme, whereby such aliens are unlawfully released, even without effective mechanisms to ensure appearances before the immigration courts for removal proceedings or to ensure removal in the case of aliens ordered removed.”
The leftist also refused to detain credible-fear asylum applicants until their cases were adjudicated, the article alleges. Instead, again, he simply released them to disappear.
The article avers that Mayorkas’ unilaterally rewrote immigration law in his “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Laws.” They state that the “fact an individual is a removable noncitizen … should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them,” and that his underlings “should not rely on the fact of [a criminal] conviction … alone” to deport them.
As well:
[He] opened, or expanded a series of categorical parole programs never authorized by Congress for foreign nationals outside of the United States, including for certain Central American minors, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Colombians, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans, which enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.
Mayorkas has more than doubled the immigration court backlog from 1.3 million to 3 million cases, the article alleges, and ordered border agents to process illegals instead of guarding the border or indicting drug traffickers. And he greatly increased the number of possible terrorists caught at the border.
On that count, border agents released a terrorist that Immigration and Customs Enforcement just tracked down in Minneapolis.
Article II accused Mayorkas of “breach of public trust” because he “knowingly made false statements, and knowingly obstructed lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security principally to obfuscate the results of his willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.”
That too, the article alleges, was part of “scheme.”
Mayorkas falsely told committees that the border is “secure,” “closed,” and “no less secure than it was previously,” and “knowingly made false statements” about properly vetting the tens of thousands of Afghans Biden imported after his withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The article cites Mayorkas’ “false narrative” that border agents whipped illegal aliens who rushed the border. And citing his first chief of the Border Patrol said, he abandoned the sound border controls he inherited from his predecessor in the Trump administration.
Though the House will likely vote to impeach Mayorkas, the Democrat-majority Senate almost certainly will vote to acquit him.
Mayorkas’ Malfeasance
The committee’s move to impeach Mayorkas came after it released a brutal report that detailed the unindicted visa fixer’s crimes.
That report summarized five others. They 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.
They also showed that Mayorkas not only has no control over the border but also permitted drug and alien-smugglers to seize control while border agents processed Biden’s Great Replacement illegal-alien invaders.
The reports document the devastation that Mayorkas unleashed upon Americans communities, which includes Americans being raped and murdered. He also delivered a crushing bill to the taxpayers to pay for it all. The cost of Biden’s illegals is $956 per taxpayer and exceeds the gross domestic product of 15 states.
As the committee was preparing to take down Mayorkas, 10 former FBI agents told top members of Congress and committee members that Biden had permitted the importation of an illegal-alien sleeper army of military-aged men.
“The country has been invaded” and the invasion won’t stop until someone stops it.
“It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown,” the agents wrote:
They include individuals encountered by border officials and then possibly released into the country, along with a shockingly high estimate of “gotaways” — meaning those who have entered and evaded apprehension. …
A startling number had been found on the terror watch list or are from countries designated as state sponsors of terror or distinctly unfriendly to the United States….
These men are potential operators in what appears to be an accelerated and strategic penetration, a soft invasion, designed to gain internal access to a country that cannot be invaded militarily in order to inflict catastrophic damage if and when enemies deem it necessary.
That is what Mayorkas permitted and why he must be impeached.
But if Mayorkas is to blame, so also is Biden, which raises the question of why House Republicans won’t impeach him for the same high crimes and misdemeanors.