Summer officially begins next week, but for some in Washington, the heat’s already on.
On Wednesday, Representative Mark Green (R-TN), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, held a hearing on immigration and border security in which he charged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with acts of outright dereliction of duty and conspiracy to circumvent immigration laws.
According to Green, Secretary Mayorkas has inflicted a “national security, humanitarian and public safety” disaster upon the American people. His use of mass parole policies that allow illegal aliens to enter and remain in the U.S., the release of unvetted aliens from hostile countries into the U.S., and the flagrant violation of laws that would have led to deportation under previous administrations all serve as damning examples.
Continuing his tirade, Green accused Mayorkas of surrendering control of the southern border, claiming there have been 350,000 encounters with unaccompanied minors of which DHS has lost control of 85,000 of them as sponsors are no longer vetted or followed up with, and that in cities like New York and Chicago, the resources intended for our most vulnerable cititzens are instead being allocated to care for and house illegal aliens.
In disgust he concluded, more people have entered the country illegally over the last two years than during the Trump and Obama administrations, combined.
We’ve long been skeptical and highly suspect of Secretary Mayorkas and his desire and intent to enforce immigration laws, especially given his performance as head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Back in November 2020, nationally syndicated columnist Joe Guzzardi who writes on immigration had this to say about his record while serving in the Obama administration.
From 2009 to 2013, Mayorkas oversaw U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency responsible for legal immigration. Mayorkas also intervened on behalf of connected Democrats to secure EB-5 citizenship-for-sale visas for wealthy international investors. A DHS Inspector General’s report found that Mayorkas intervened “outside the normal adjudicatory process,” and “in ways that benefited the stakeholders.”
Equally disturbing and also during his USCIS tenure, Mayorkas met with and intervened on behalf of the ITServe Alliance, to repeal a policy known as the Neufeld Memo. The Neufeld Memo was used by USCIS to delay or deny work permits issued to technology workers, a majority of whom are Indian nationals. At the time, enforcement of the policy was having an impact – it was harming and disrupting the unscrupulous labor arbitrage model used by IT consulting companies.
Representative Green isn’t the first to cry foul and assign blame to Secretary Mayorkas for our immigration woes. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in March, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) questioned and excoriated Mayorkas on his indiscriminate use of mass parole and advanced parole which have allowed hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal aliens to enter the U.S. and remain here.
“This is so far afield from the definition that Congress actually authorized by statute and far beyond what [the policy] is heretofore understood to do, and what the words themselves mean, which is to provide a way that somebody could come in [to the country] in the case of a medical emergency, under that portion of the statutory language. Or, for example, someone who is coming in under the public benefit prong, from a foreign country, who’s needed to testify in a jury trial or something like that, and then be returned. Parole wasn’t intended to be broad, nor was it intended to provide someone a permanent residence or, a residence that can become permanent within the United States. So this is really concerning to me. When I see this I wonder how you can possibly defend the legality of this. It shows up further in the way that you’re handling asylum.”
With Representative Green and Senator Lee stoking the fires for change, there’s hope that Representative Chip Roy’s (R-TX) lobbying for Mayorkas’ impeachment will gain traction.
In March of 2022, Roy called upon his House Republican colleagues to uniformly and publicly support the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas for fundamentally refusing to secure the Southern border and endangering American lives in the process. This was a follow-up to his sponsoring bill H.Res.582 – Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
I too believe Secretary Mayorkas needs to go, and this example from ancient history may provide the motivation Congress needs.
The famed Roman statesman and orator Marcus Porcius Cato ended every one of his speeches with the refrain, “Carthage must be destroyed”. The phrase signaled his firm resolve to protect Rome from its arch enemy and it likely galvanized the Senate to wage the Third Punic War and the siege which destroyed the city.
Today, given the failure of DHS’ leadership, wouldn’t it be great if before and after every speech our legislators would cry out, “Mayorkas must be impeached”. Please let it be so and may it galvanize our leaders to action.
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