The House of Representatives released a report halfway through last week blaming Biden Administration officials, particularly Alejandro Mayorkas, for record-high migration levels at the southern border.
“The 55-page report, compiled by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee, represents the latest step from the conference in a bid to remove Mayorkas from office. There are already at least four articles of impeachment filed against him in the House,” reports Roll Call.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green told reporters Wednesday that the report represents the first phase in a “five-phase deep dive” into the causes of the high migration levels.
According to the report:
[Biden administration officials] have proven directly responsible for the historic border crisis still ongoing today. [And Mayorkas] bears particular responsibility for the devastating crisis that has unfolded and expanded on his watch and due to his policies.
Green said the committee will turn its findings over to the Judiciary Committee, which would be responsible for formally launching impeachment proceedings. He estimated the investigation would take 11 to 12 weeks, says Roll Call.
After releasing the report, the House Homeland Security Committee held a public hearing it said would act to “kick off” the investigation of Mayorkas’s “dereliction of duty.”
Roll Call reports:
In his opening remarks, Green accused Mayorkas of risking U.S. national security by “releasing unvetted individuals from our nation’s most dangerous adversaries into our local communities.”
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security committee, called the hearing “a new low” and a “sham.”
“It’s obvious this hearing isn’t really about border security. It’s not even really about Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or the Department of Homeland Security. It’s about partisan politics,” Thompson said. “It’s about House Republican leadership catering to its most extreme MAGA members, who want to impeach someone, anyone at all.”
Thompson also asserted his Republican colleagues are “trying to make good on GOP backroom deals to elect a speaker, raise the debt ceiling, and stave off a mutiny in the Republican ranks.”
Four House Republicans — Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, Texas Rep. Pat Fallon, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins — have already filed articles of impeachment against him.
A DHS spokesperson said Wednesday that Mayorkas “is proud to advance the noble mission of the Department, support its extraordinary workforce, and serve the American people.”
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