National Review
The House Homeland Security Committee, on a party-line vote, approved two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
This is a salutary step.
Only one cabinet secretary has ever been impeached, in 1876, and he resigned before the Senate could remove him.
Mayorkas has been the willing implement for this administration’s blatant refusal to enforce federal immigration law. He has ignored federal statutes requiring that illegal immigrants be detained until they are removed, given asylum, or otherwise legally adjudicated. He has twisted the definitions of legal status, incoherently extended protected status to 700,000 Venezuelan migrants, and handed out meaningless court dates, sometimes a decade in the future, as a substitute for enforcement today. He stands charged with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” in disregard of seven different enumerated statutory requirements and with a “breach of the public trust” for false statements to Congress and obstruction of congressional oversight.
House Republicans, with few other levers to compel executive compliance with the law, should vote to impeach, even if the Democratic Senate will not convict.
