Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced “baseless” and “false” allegations from House Republicans ahead of a key vote on impeachment articles in the House Homeland Security Committee.
The allegations accuse him of failing to follow immigration law and breaching public trust.
Mayorkas defended himself, citing the need for immigration reform and increased enforcement efforts.
“I assure you that your false accusations do not rattle me and do not divert me from the law enforcement and broader public service mission to which I have devoted most of my career and to which I remain devoted,” Mayorkas said.
“These articles lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green said.
“He has willfully and systemically refused to comply with immigration laws enacted by Congress. He has breached the public trust by knowingly making false statements to Congress and the American people, and obstructing congressional oversight of his department. These facts are beyond dispute, and the results of his lawless behavior have been disastrous for our country.”
Green said Mayorkas has “completely disregarded the separation of powers, a bedrock of our constitutional republic.”
“Congress has a duty to see that the executive branch implements and enforces the laws we have passed. Yet Secretary Mayorkas has repeatedly refused to do so. His lawless behavior was exactly what the Framers gave us the impeachment power to remedy. It is time we take this affront to a coequal branch of government, to the Constitution, and to the American people seriously,” he said.
The administration and House Democrats blamed the crisis on a broken system and lack of funding from Congress.
“Problems with our broken and outdated immigration system are not new,” Mayorkas wrote.
“Our immigration laws last received an overhaul in 1996. Our immigration laws were simply not built for 21st century migration patterns,” he said.
“Instead you claim that we have failed to enforce our immigration laws. That is false,” he said.
“The allegations are baseless and inaccurate,” he said.
House Democrats accused the Republican majority of abusing the impeachment process, while Mayorkas’ supporters emphasized his dedication to upholding the law and public trust.
“What is glaringly missing from these articles is any real charge or even a shred of evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors – the Constitutional standard for impeachment. That should come as no surprise because Republicans’ so-called ‘investigation’ of Secretary Mayorkas has been a remarkably fact-free affair. They are abusing Congress’ impeachment power to appease their MAGA members, score political points, and deflect Americans’ attention from their do-nothing Congress,” Bennie Thompson stated.
“Republicans don’t actually want to work towards bipartisan solutions to fix the border – in fact, they have repeatedly sabotaged the Secretary’s efforts to secure the border and denied DHS’ funding requests. Secretary Mayorkas is upholding the law and honoring the public trust as he has throughout his more than 30 years of service to our Nation. The House must reject this sham resolution.”
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