Impeaching Mayorkas Gains Momentum Among Key House Republicans
Calls among House Republicans to begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have grown after a week of chaotic and record-breaking illegal migration activity at the southern border.
Several members of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee responsible for conducting impeachments, say they support moving forward with the process.
“He should be impeached as soon as humanly possible,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told reporters on Tuesday.
Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) told Breitbart News, “I support beginning impeachment hearings. I’ve said that to chairman [Jim] Jordan. My constituents think it’s long overdue, and I feel as though once we lay out the facts for the American people and for my colleagues in the House, it’ll be inevitable.”
Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) said in a statement, “Mayorkas has done more to help the cartels and child traffickers than he has to help the American people. It is clear he is intentionally violating the law and he must be impeached.”
The calls come after the Biden administration lifted the Title 42 border protection last week, which followed at least two consecutive days of border officials apprehending more than 10,000 illegal migrants per day, the highest single-day totals ever recorded, Fox News observed.
Overall, under Mayorkas’s watch, officials have apprehended more than five million illegal migrants at the southern border, not including an estimated 1.5 million gotaways.
Dismissing calls for his impeachment, Mayorkas told CNN over the weekend, “I am focused on the work in front of us. … I will continue to focus on [DHS’s] work throughout my tenure.”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a longtime border hawk, is working on rallying support for his articles of impeachment against the secretary, which he introduced in February.
The Arizona Republican is “full steam ahead,” his spokesman said Tuesday.
Jordan, likewise, has openly said he believes Mayorkas is worthy of impeachment, but the chairman behind the scenes is still working with some of his members and the Homeland Security Committee on how best to approach it, a person familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Hearings among the two committees on border security and immigration, including one in Judiciary by the end of July that will feature Mayorkas, would likely first need to lay out how the secretary is guilty of an impeachable offense.
Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-TX) is expected to continue with a “factfinding mission” related to failures at the border that, per his spokeswoman, could ultimately serve as the investigative support to the Judiciary Committee’s potential pursuit of voting on impeachment articles.
In perhaps the clearest sign yet of conference-wide interest in removing Mayorkas from his position, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) revealed to Breitbart News on Friday that he was in favor of impeachment.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was less direct at a press conference Tuesday, telling reporters that he has a “constitutional point of view” on impeachment but reminding them that he had called on Mayorkas to resign months ago because the secretary had “failed at his job.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), another Judiciary Committee member who would vote in favor of impeaching Mayorkas, told Breitbart News he believed the secretary could be removed from his position for a “willful nonenforcement of our border.”
“You can’t any longer believe that somebody’s that bad at their job,” Massie said.
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Write to Ashley Oliver at aoliver@breitbart.com. Follow her on Twitter at @asholiver.
VIDEO: Biden-Deployed Soldier Opens Texas Border Gate, Allows Migrants to Enter
A U.S. National Guard soldier deployed to the Texas border by the Biden administration is seen in a video unlocking a border barrier gate to allow a large group of migrants to enter. The soldier is not a member of the Texas National Guard deployed by Governor Greg Abbott, officials stated.
A video tweeted by Fox LA reporter Bill Melugin shows a female soldier opening a gate in a border fence near Eagle Pass, Texas. The date on the video is May 15, shortly after the end of the CDC Title-42 migrant expulsion protocol.
The video shows the soldier opening the gate in what appears to be a Texas-built border fence along the Rio Grande. The soldier steps back as the gate swings open and a large group of migrants begin to enter.
The migrants line up to wait for Border Patrol agents who will process the migrants and place them on the bus for transportation to an Eagle Pass processing facility.
Melugin tweeted that Texas National Guard officials told him the soldier is a Missouri National Guard member deployed to assist Border Patrol agents under Title 10 by the Biden administration. She is not an Operation Lone Star-deployed soldier.
A second video shows the migrants lining up to be processed by the Border Patrol agents. A CBP bus stands by to provide transportation to a processing center in Eagle Pass.
On May 15, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended 650 migrants, according to a law enforcement report obtained by Breitbart Texas. The group shown crossing in the video above would account for a significant portion of these apprehensions.
Agents along the entire southwest border with Mexico apprehended more than 4,800 migrants who crossed the border between ports of entry. This is the fifth straight of declining apprehensions following the end of the Title 42 program.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.
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