{"id":1748566,"date":"2022-11-22T17:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748566"},"modified":"2022-11-22T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:47:37","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-demands-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-resign-threatens-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-demands-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-resign-threatens-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Demands DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Resign, Threatens Impeachment"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-demands-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-resign-threatens-impeachment%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=1748566&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--><p>House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign Tuesday afternoon after the speaker-elect led a GOP congressional delegation to tour the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis actions have produced the greatest wave of illegal immigration in recorded history,\u201d McCarthy said, issuing a seething indictment of the seemingly absent Homeland Security secretary engaged in a \u201cdereliction of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/immigration\/commentary\/the-next-congress-should-impeach-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to an analysis of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data from the conservative Heritage Foundation, federal law enforcement has recorded more than 4 million apprehensions, \u201cmore than the previous four fiscal years combined.\u201d October\u2019s border arrests alone were the third highest in American history, with more than 230,000 arrests reported by CBP. Illicit substances continue to flood American communities nationwide after pouring through the open border. Cocaine seizures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-october-2022-monthly-operational-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spiked<\/a> 104 percent last month, and fentanyl seizures remained on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, who was nominated by the Republican conference for speaker of the House last week, threatened the nation\u2019s security chief with a House impeachment inquiry if he refuses to step down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe cannot and must not remain in that position,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cIf Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure [and] will determine whether we can begin an impeachment inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past September, McCarthy told The Federalist that House Republicans would not rule out impeaching Mayorkas if the GOP were to regain a majority, but they wouldn\u2019t \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/mccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">start<\/a>\u201d with it. <\/p>\n<p>The GOP leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1595078099015720970?s=20&#038;t=iECNNsMNaELb0fYkwhlgXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News Tuesday afternoon the trip came in response to Mayorkas\u2019s comments on Capitol Hill last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/mayorkas-congress-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaring<\/a> the border as \u201csecure\u201d despite the overwhelming surge in unchecked migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost operational control of our southern border, empowering drug cartels and human trafficking,\u201d McCarthy said at the tour\u2019s concluding press conference, railing against the administration\u2019s proactive efforts to secure an open border by blocking additional security measures and undermining its own agents.<\/p>\n<p>In October, emails <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/mayorkas-knew-the-migrant-whipping-story-was-a-ruse-but-he-peddled-it-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surfaced<\/a> exposing Mayorkas\u2019 participation in a conscious lie when the DHS secretary condemned agents for \u201cwhipping\u201d migrants coming over the border last year. Viral images of agents using horse reigns as a common crowd control measure to protect the horses and the bystanders were misinterpreted by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/21\/democrats-spread-border-patrol-whip-lie-while-failing-to-address-growing-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a> and the corporate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-border-patrol-whip-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press<\/a> as \u201cwhips\u201d being used to beat Haitian migrants. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are. We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation\u2019s ongoing battle against systemic racism,\u201d Mayorkas said at the White House in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, the photographer who took the photo had explained prior to Mayorkas taking the podium that no whips were used. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen them whip anyone,\u201d Paul Ratje told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/local\/el-paso-news\/photographer-behind-controversial-photos-speaks-exclusively-to-ktsm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KTSM<\/a>. \u201cHe was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you\u2019re looking at the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed at the White House on the photographer\u2019s contradictory testimony, Mayorkas dismissed the clarification. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe horses have long reins, and the image in the photograph that we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1748569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}