{"id":1822008,"date":"2023-01-24T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822008"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:19:59","slug":"gross-negligence-why-house-republicans-have-more-than-enough-to-impeach-dhs-secretary-mayorkas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-negligence-why-house-republicans-have-more-than-enough-to-impeach-dhs-secretary-mayorkas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Negligence: Why House Republicans Have More Than Enough To Impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fgross-negligence-why-house-republicans-have-more-than-enough-to-impeach-dhs-secretary-mayorkas%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=1822008&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-->\n<p>The House of Representatives&#8217; newly elected GOP majority has many tasks: investigations into COVID origins, a debt ceiling negotiation, and President Biden&#8217;s son Hunter. There are also a slew of classified documents that continue to appear everywhere the president has been. However, one urgent matter should not be lost in the shuffle. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impeachment<\/a> Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, must be a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and some Republicans disagree with this admittedly severe course of action. They argue that Mayorkas&#8217; criticisms focus on policy, and not high-level crimes or misdemeanors. As we all recall from the Trump impeachments, first of all, Mayorkas is a politico. \u201chigh crime or misdemeanor\u201d is whatever Congress says it is, so what\u2019s good for the goose is good for the gander. Even under more traditional definitions, however, Mayorkas\u2019 shambolic tenure has more than risen to the needed level of negligence and dishonesty.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a crime to do poorly at work, but it is a crime to perform your job with gross, obvious, or knowing negligence. Ask if you are causing severe harm to other people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alec-baldwin-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-over-2021-rust-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alec Baldwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Mayorkas hasn&#8217;t just failed to perform in his mission to secure the southern frontier, he has also simply not been a good enough person. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused to do it<\/a> All of them.<\/p>\n<p>How can we be sure? We know it because he won\u2019t even admit the border is not secure. In fiscal year 2022, migrant crossings reached a record and shocking, 2.76 million \u2014 one million higher than any previous year. And it\u2019s not just human beings, some of whom are brutally trafficked, it is also deadly amounts of fentanyl fueling a crisis of overdoses from sea to drug-addled sea. Mayorkas and the White House can confirm that nothing is wrong. The border is secure. Everything is as it should be. It\u2019s the very definition of gross negligence.<\/p>\n<p>This brings us to the lie. It is a crime to tell this tall tale about a secure frontier to the American public and press. However, telling it to Congress is another matter. Mayorkas is legally bound to tell the truth with Congressmen who are responsible for his oversight. It is impossible to believe that he has. He has, at best, deflected their inquiries and, at worst. Lie to their furious faces.<\/p>\n<p>Of all his lies and derelictions there is one that stands out as a call to his impeachment. Another form of lying that crosses legal boundaries is slander, and in regard to his own border agents who were falsely accused of the racist whipping of Haitian migrants on horseback \u2014 he is absolutely guilty of that heinous act. For almost a year he maintained this vicious and malicious lie was true, he even punished the agents and it\u2019s utterly despicable.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas claimed he was \u201chorrified,\u201d The horses were also euthanized. \u201cweaponized.\u201d But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/email-shows-sec-mayorkas-was-alerted-migrants-were-not-whipped-by-border-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new emails<\/a> The Heritage Foundation obtained documents that show that Biden administration officials informed him within days that he needed clarifications because reins aren&#8217;t whips. The Biden administration officials failed to clarify the remarks. He also told Congress that an inquiry would be initiated \u201cin a matter of days, not weeks.\u201d It took nearly a year. As it turned out, there was no whipping. This was evident within hours of the incident, when even the cameraman who captured the footage stated that he had not seen any whipping.<\/p>\n<p>Congress must not allow our border agents continue to work for a man who lies about them and smears them with racism to advance his political agenda. It\u2019s an absolute disgrace and more than impeachable. From Biden\u2019s document scandal to Mayorkas\u2019 lies, this is clearly an administration that believes no rules apply to them, that they can do whatever they want with no consequence. Well, it\u2019s time for some consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Impeaching Mayorkas would not be a political stunt \u2014 in fact, it wouldn\u2019t be political at all. Congress has the obligation to expel officials from the executive branch who have committed high crimes or misdemeanors and when they are unable to perform their duties. Mayorkas made Swiss cheese from a southern border Trump had put under greater control. This isn\u2019t because of incompetence or laziness \u2014 it is intentional. Even the lies about whipping were intended as a distraction from his numerous failures. <\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to act, and impeachment is the best course of action. Republicans in Congress must not be afraid to fulfill their obligation.<\/p>\n<p><em>David Marcus is a columnist and author of \u201cCharade:<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly minted GOP majority in the House of Representatives has a lot on its plate: a debt ceiling negotiation, investigations into COVID origins, not to mention President Biden, his son Hunter, and the cavalcade of classified documents that keep showing up everywhere the president has ever been. 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