{"id":1457405,"date":"2022-04-28T21:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457405"},"modified":"2022-04-28T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:59:42","slug":"they-compare-you-to-benedict-arnold-congressman-says-constituents-want-biden-official-impeached-over-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-compare-you-to-benedict-arnold-congressman-says-constituents-want-biden-official-impeached-over-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Compare You To Benedict Arnold\u2019: Congressman Says Constituents Want Biden Official Impeached Over Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-compare-you-to-benedict-arnold-congressman-says-constituents-want-biden-official-impeached-over-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1236602250.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration official who oversees the border must quit or be impeached, a series of Republican congressmen said during a heated congressional hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks erupted one day after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress that DHS had \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/alejandro-mayorkas-immigration-border-biden-title-42\">effectively managed<\/a>\u201d America\u2019s southern border with Mexico. In fact, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported 2.5 million unlawful border encounters during the Biden presidency, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3-stories-the-media-ignored-this-week\">1.7 million<\/a> illegal crossings in 2021. Thursday\u2019s proceedings breathed added life into efforts to remove Mayorkas from his role overseeing U.S. immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy constituents want you impeached because they think you\u2019ve committed treason,\u201d Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k9MIkB0Y25I?t=6791\">told<\/a> Mayorkas on Thursday. \u201cThey think you\u2019re a traitor. They compare you to Benedict Arnold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-resolution\/582?s=1&#038;r=242\">a bill<\/a> to impeach Mayorkas last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k9MIkB0Y25I?t=4986\">confronted<\/a> the secretary over Biden policies that he said incentivize illegal immigration to the United States. \u201cYou\u2019re not preventing entries; you\u2019re fomenting entries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-by-design-this-is-not-accidental-did-democrats-dismantle-border-security-on-purpose\">You\u2019re encouraging it<\/a>,\u201d he said \u2014 a common refrain during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The number of illegal border crossings has increased every month of 2022, including another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">221,000<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs told Mayorkas that if he supports the Biden administration\u2019s lax border enforcement, \u201cthen you should be impeached. If you disagree with the Biden administration\u2019s program, you should resign. That\u2019s where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Thursday\u2019s comments amplified those made by the top-rated House Republican, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), on Monday. McCarthy said it is time for Mayorkas \u201cto do his job\u201d by rejecting the repeal of Title 42, scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/house\/3463004-mccarthy-warns-of-impeachment-for-biden-border-official\/\">warned<\/a> Mayorkas, \u201cat any time if someone is derelict in their job, there is always the option of impeaching somebody.\u201d Mayorkas remains unlikely to face impeachment in a Democrat-controlled Congress, but the odds may change if Republicans regain the congressional majority after this November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Pointed exchanges punctuated the hearing, which lasted hours into the afternoon. Several congressmen on Thursday said not only the present border situation, but also the Biden administration\u2019s determination to grant expedited asylum to would-be refugees, poses a national security threat. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) invoked Ramzi Yousef, the 1993 World Trade Center bomber, who came into the United States on an <a href=\"https:\/\/govinfo.library.unt.edu\/911\/staff_statements\/911_TerrTrav_Ch3.pdf\">erroneous claim<\/a> of political asylum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you waiting for a mushroom cloud?\u201d Bishop <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k9MIkB0Y25I?t=6242\">asked<\/a> Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t dignify that last question with a response,\u201d replied Mayorkas.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Some congressmen made a more comprehensive rejection of the Biden-Mayorkas border regimen. \u201cAre you doing anything right when it comes to the border?\u201d Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done a tremendous number of things correct,\u201d the secretary responded.<\/p>\n<p>Uncontrolled borders do not merely bring new migrants: Fentanyl, largely trafficked by Mexican cartels, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trafficked-how-joe-bidens-open-border-policies-have-fueled-americas-fentanyl-epidemic\">eclipsed<\/a> automobile accidents and suicides as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judgment-matters-as-biden-obsesses-over-omicron-fentanyl-overdoses-surge\">number-one killer<\/a> of Americans aged 18 to 45.<\/p>\n<p>Most Democrats proved content to change the subject, discussing everything from Mayorkas\u2019 equity plan for members of the LGBTQIA+ community to the secretary\u2019s family tree, which contains both Ashkenzi and Sephardic Jewish lineage. Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) told the secretary that she is \u201cworried about the threat of white supremacy\u201d and \u201cviolent right-wing extremism.\u201d Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) accused Republicans of engaging in \u201csickening, breathtakingly xenophobic\u201d treatment of Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>But a few Democrats questioned the Biden administration\u2019s immigration priorities as well. Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) mentioned opioids and the actions of Mexican cartels in his remarks. And at a separate hearing on Wednesday, Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin blamed her own party for the lack of progress on border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the White House and have done nothing to get at comprehensive immigration reform,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jnh0xhG1t7o&#038;t=4950s\">said<\/a> Rep. Slotkin. \u201cIf we are dealing with security issues on the very border of our country, we have failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur policy is failing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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