Should Congress impeach Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas?

Immigration National Security and Defense
Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors (H.Res. 863)
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Bill Summary

The bill seeks to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, director of the Department of Homeland Security, for committing high crimes and misdemeanors due to an alleged “failure to secure the border”. The articles of impeachment include charges of refusal to comply with the law and breaching public trust due to alleged misrepresentations of the ongoing border situation. Similar impeachment articles against Mayorkas have been introduced in the House several times, including numerous identical bills sponsored by Rep. Greene. Sponsor: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican, Georgia, District 14)
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Opponents say

•      "These impeachment proceedings demonstrate that some of my Republican colleagues do not take this institution, or the responsibilities of our office seriously. They are willing to take impeachment - an important tool for accountability - and make a mockery of it for political gain. This is how I know they are not taking the humanitarian crisis within our border seriously. Impeachment will not make our borders any safer for our communities or for asylum seekers, and it will not address the conditions across Latin America that motivate families to migrate across jungles and deserts to our southern border." Source: Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (Democrat, Illinois, District 3)


•      "House Republicans' impeachment of Mayorkas is an attempt to sabotage the progress that Democrats, Senate Republicans and POTUS have made addressing our southern border. This reckless abuse of the Constitution's impeachment powers is a total breach of the public trust." Source: Rep. Glenn Ivey (Democrat, Maryland, District 4)


•      "Given the grave importance of impeachment — which you once described as ‘probably the most extreme remedy that our constitution affords for taking someone out of office’ — this Committee should do better. At the very least, it should follow the rules and practices established over more than two centuries of congressional history" Source: Rep. Bennie Thompson (Democrat, Mississippi, District 2)

Proponents say

•      "Just yesterday, two of my constituents from Dalton in Whitfield County, Georgia were killed in a high-speed head-on collision at the hands of human traffickers smuggling illegal aliens into our country. A husband and wife are gone forever. Their family will never get to say goodbye. Two lives were taken from us that never should have been and never would have been if Secretary Mayorkas had done his job and secured our Southern border. Americans are getting murdered just going to see their family because of government officials turning a blind eye. Every week in America, the same amount of Americans die that were killed in Israel by Hamas terrorists all because of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas can no longer be ignored. The time for more hearings and phases is over." Source: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican, Georgia, District 14)


•      "Alejandro Mayorkas must be held accountable for his egregious failures - there’s no doubt about that. By giving the Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Jordan, the opportunity to conduct a full-scale impeachment inquiry the right way, House Republicans are fulfilling the commitments we made to the American people and rising to a level that Democrats could never do. I opposed the snap impeachment Democrats launched against president Trump, and Republicans can do better than to take a page out of the Democrat political playbook. I look forward to voting for the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas - when we’ve adhered to regular order and made good on our commitments." Source: Rep. Virginia Foxx (Republican, North Carolina, District 5)


•      "We have a responsibility here to do our duty. Our duty is to do right by the American people to protect the people. The first and most important job the federal government is protecting citizens. We're not doing that under President Biden. We are. We have only a tiny, as you know, razor thin, actually a one vote majority right now in the House. Our majority is small. We only have it in one chamber, but we're trying to use every ounce of leverage that we have to make sure that this issue is addressed." Source: Rep. Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana, District 4)

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