The following report is by Just The News:
The vote pushes two articles of impeachment to the Senate for a potential trial later this year.
The two articles alleged that Mayorkas’ handling of the southern U.S. border crisis involved both a “breach of trust” and a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.”
The Biden administration has released about 2.3 million illegal immigrants encountered at the border since 2021, according to a report from January 2024.
Last week, the first vote on the resolution took place after nearly 3 hours of debate on the House floor but it failed to pass 216-214.
Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, had changed his vote from yes to no so the resolution would be able to be reconsidered.
“For nearly a year, the House Homeland Security Committee has taken a careful and methodical approach to this investigation and the results are clear: from his first day in office, Secretary Mayorkas has willfully and consistently refused to comply with federal immigration laws, fueling the worst border catastrophe in American history,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a statement.
“He has undermined public trust through multiple false statements to Congress, obstructed lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, and violated his oath of office. Alejandro Mayorkas deserves to be impeached, and Congress has a constitutional obligation to do so. Next to a declaration of war, impeachment is arguably the most serious authority given to the House and we have treated this matter accordingly. Since this Secretary refuses to do the job that the Senate confirmed him to do, the House must act,” he added.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security reacted to the vote on Tuesday evening.
“House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border. While Secretary Mayorkas was helping a group of Republican and Democratic Senators develop bipartisan solutions to strengthen border security and get needed resources for enforcement, House Republicans have wasted months with this baseless, unconstitutional impeachment,” said Mia Ehrenberg, a department spokesperson, in a statement.
“Without a shred of evidence or legitimate Constitutional grounds, and despite bipartisan opposition, House Republicans have falsely smeared a dedicated public servant who has spent more than 20 ears enforcing our laws and serving our country,” she added.
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said after the vote that the House took “decisive action to defend our constitutional order and hold accountable a public official who has violated his oath of office.”
The last time Congress faced such a momentous vote was 1876, when the House prepared to impeach then-Secretary of War William Belknap.
Belknap rushed to the White House and submitted his resignation to then-President Ulysses Grant.
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Mayorkas’ termination is just theatrics to prop-up the GOP and make it look like they care. As I have noted before, the Republicans are easily just as guilty for the open-border invitations they are granting illegal aliens. They always talk tough but very to nothing ever gets done.
It is important to remember that the Senate just passed the vote to fund $95 billion to bankroll other nation’s national security (primarily to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan), but nothing for the border. Money talks; and the proof is in the pudding right there. House Speaker Mike Johnson has tried to shoot this down already, but we know that he has already signed and saber-rattled for bills before that ensures more funding and war toys for other countries; so, give it a little more time and I suspect the House will capitulate as well, per usual.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
As I said, Mayorkas’ firing changes nothing. The gates are still wide open and the government is more than obliged to keep inviting them in.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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As we all know, we will believe it when we see it, but he sure does need to be canned. He probably couldn’t even handle being a Walmart greeter without messing it up. He looks like a nervous wreck when he’s spewing out his lies. Well we shall see, but there’s doubt in my mind that anything will happen. I can’t understand in my little brain WHY we send money to other countries when we don’t even have a dog in the fight. smh