{"id":1983587,"date":"2023-07-26T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-republicans-build-case-against-mayorkas-you-should-be-impeached\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:28:03","slug":"house-judiciary-republicans-build-case-against-mayorkas-you-should-be-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-republicans-build-case-against-mayorkas-you-should-be-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"House Judiciary Republicans are constructing a case against Mayorkas, asserting that he should face 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\">30<\/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%2Fhouse-judiciary-republicans-build-case-against-mayorkas-you-should-be-impeached%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=1983587&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--><h2>The \u2063House Judiciary Committee Takes Aim at DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/h2>\n<p>The House&#8217;s primary impeachment body took a step forward \u2064toward pushing out the Biden administration&#8217;s top border security official, which would mark the first Cabinet-level official to be fired by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP-run House Judiciary Committee concluded after four hours of questioning Wednesday that Department of Homeland \u200cSecurity Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was misinformed, uninformed, and dishonest about the state of \u200bhis 260,000-person department.\u2062 It was Judiciary&#8217;s first hearing targeting Mayorkas\u200d after the \u200cHouse Homeland Security Committee launched an extensive, ongoing investigation into the former Obama administration DHS official.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Everything&#8217;s on the table as to what&#8217;s \u200bnext,&#8221; a senior GOP aide\u2064 wrote in a text message following the hearing.<\/h3>\n<p>Others were more blunt. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) urged Mayorkas to resign at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,\u200d I \u200cwill not,&#8221; Mayorkas said. &#8220;I am incredibly\u2063 proud of the work that is performed in \u200bthe Department of Homeland Security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That leaves us with no other \u200doption,&#8221; Van Drew replied. &#8220;You should be impeached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hearing could serve as a litmus\u2063 test for\u2063 whether Judiciary Republicans could build and execute a \u200csolid case \u200bagainst Mayorkas, and Republicans emerged confident that they had cornered Mayorkas \u2064on his missteps at the\u200b border over the past 30\u200b months.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#8217;s\u200c well-organized line of questioning jumped around to various\u2064 immigration and border issues but largely left Mayorkas \u2063speechless and, in their eyes, defenseless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked you to be prepared. We wrote letters\u2064 in the last several weeks to be prepared to answer that kind of question,&#8221; Chairman Jim Jordan\u200b (R-OH) said at\u200b the conclusion\u200c of the hearing. &#8220;The fact that you won&#8217;t is bad, and the fact that you don&#8217;t know is \u2063just as bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But lawmakers quickly realized as questioning continued that despite submitting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-republicans-build-case-against-mayorkas-you-should-be-impeached\/\" title=\"House Judiciary Republicans are constructing a case against Mayorkas, asserting that he should face impeachment.\">24-page\u200d written statement ahead<\/a> of the hearing, Mayorkas had not brought \u200bthe answers to their questions on the number of illegal\u2063 immigrants released from the border \u2064into the United \u200cStates and the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-proposes-nearly-1-million-reparations-for-illegal-families-as-families-of-fallen-troops-only-get-100000\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Proposes Nearly  Million 'Reparations' for Illegal Families as Families of Fallen Troops Only Get 0,000\">illegal immigrants deported<\/a> since January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t know the number of how many you&#8217;ve sent home,&#8221; said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). &#8220;1.2 million people today have been\u200b through your entire process, right? They&#8217;ve been through what you call a removal proceeding.\u200d It&#8217;s just an amnesty dance because after the 1.2 million people get an order from the judge saying that \u200bthey don&#8217;t have a basis to be here, you still\u200c don\u2019t remove them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congressman, \u200bthat is false,&#8221; Mayorkas said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m asking you about a subset that you won&#8217;t send home,\u2064 and the reason you&#8217;re smirking about it, and the reason you won\u2019t answer\u2063 my question, is because everybody gets the joke,&#8221; Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. \u2064Thomas Tiffany (R-WI) slammed Mayorkas for not agreeing with FBI Director Christopher Wray&#8217;s assessment earlier this month that \u2063the U.S. was &#8220;seeing all sorts of very serious, very serious criminal threats across the \u200cborder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who\u2019s lying? Him \u2062or you?&#8221; \u2063Tiffany asked before the committee \u2062shifted on without an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), a Ukrainian immigrant and businesswoman, chided Mayorkas for his attitude toward the seriousness of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-expert-blasts-biden-admin-over-claims-on-border-crisis-an-offense-to-human-intelligence\/\" title=\"Immigration Expert Blasts Biden Admin Over Claims On Border Crisis: \u2018An Offense To Human Intelligence\u2019\">national security crisis<\/a>, and you sit in here and you&#8217;re looking at us with a very smiley face. It&#8217;s unacceptable,&#8221; Spartz said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz lambasted Mayorkas for a new\u2064 Biden administration initiative that allows noncitizens to request \u200dan appointment with customs officers at the southern border&#8217;s land \u200dports of entry rather than cross illegally between ports. Most noncitizens who obtain appointments through the CBP One \u200bapp are released into the country on parole, which Republicans\u2063 have dubbed \u2062a bait and switch that makes illegal crossings appear\u200c to be declining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019ve scaled it to the moon. Like this app\u2062 that you\u2019ve got everybody downloading is \u200clike the Disney Fastpass into the country, never to be subject to \u200cactual removal,&#8221; Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) asked if there \u200bwas a \u200ccap to the number of noncitizens who illegally entered the country that \u2064it would allow to remain in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve already released more than 2.1 million illegal immigrants into this country since you took office and that&#8217;s the\u200c population the size of the state of \u200cNebraska,&#8221; McClintock said. &#8220;While the Border Patrol has been consumed by taking\u200c names \u200band\u2062 changing diapers \u200dat the border, one and a half million\u200b known gotaways\u2064 have illegally entered the country as well. That&#8217;s an additional illegal population the size of the state of Hawaii. So once again, I would ask you: What is the limit or is there one?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was criticized by Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) for calling\u2064 Mayorkas &#8220;dishonest&#8221; but would\u2062 not \u2064apologize after the\u2063 Democrat&#8217;s reprimand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in Congress seven years. I think you&#8217;re the\u2063 most \u2062dishonest witness that has ever appeared before the Judiciary Committee,&#8221; Johnson\u200d said. &#8220;This \u2063is such a frustrating exercise for us because our constituents \u2062want answers. &#8230; They&#8217;re tired of people dying from overdoses, and it&#8217;s your\u2062 fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a debate over the legitimacy of\u2063 claims for asylum at the southern border, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said 9 in 10 were\u2063 ultimately denied, but Mayorkas disagreed\u2062 with his numbers. Issa later followed up \u2063with exact numbers and told Mayorkas that 83% of initial asylum claims\u200d were ultimately denied,\u2063 undercutting the secretary&#8217;s claim that his initial statement\u200b was false.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany asked Mayorkas how many Afghans had been airlifted from the\u200c country in mid-2021 when the U.S. military pulled out\u200c all troops. Mayorkas said he did not know\u2062 the number of Afghans who\u200b had been flown to the U.S. and released into the country under parole, a category different than refugee and refugee status.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were 70,192\u200d Afghans that were brought into \u2064the United \u2062States. They were\u2064 brought \u200chere on parole for two years,&#8221; Tiffany said. &#8220;Will you be reviewing each individual status on a case-by-case basis as this expiration happens? The commander \u200ddown at Fort McCoy \u2064in my state, when \u2062I interviewed him two years \u200cago, he said they were not\u200c interviewed\u200b on a case-by-case basis [to obtain parole status initially].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas defended himself in a portion of \u2063questioning by the top committee Democrat, Rep. \u200cJerry Nadler (NY).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know very \u2064well in my 22 years of service, including 12 years as a federal prosecutor, that we are a nation \u2062of laws, and I take our obligation to follow the law scrupulously. I adhere to it strictly,&#8221; Mayorkas said. \u2062&#8221;Our parole authority is being used consistently with the law. It\u200d is a discretion authority that the statute provides. We exercise it on a case-by-case basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Veronica\u2064 Escobar (D-TX), a progressive Democrat who represents a district on\u200c the Mexico border, knocked Republicans for turning the\u200d event into a show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem we face today is that the\u2064 majority of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only interested in performance, which is why they yell so loudly and try to turn the nation&#8217;s attention away\u2064 from their own lack of solutions.\u200b And that&#8217;s what this hearing is ultimately about,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house-judiciary-committee-alejandro-mayorkas-border-security\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee, led by the GOP, moved closer to removing Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administration&#8217;s border security official. This would be the first time Congress fires a Cabinet-level official. 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