{"id":2217847,"date":"2024-04-10T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-goes-off-on-mayorkas-for-border-crisis-gives-me-no-joy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:08:41","slug":"kennedy-goes-off-on-mayorkas-for-border-crisis-gives-me-no-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-goes-off-on-mayorkas-for-border-crisis-gives-me-no-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy expresses frustration with Mayorkas 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\">16<\/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%2Fkennedy-goes-off-on-mayorkas-for-border-crisis-gives-me-no-joy%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=2217847&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>Senator\u200c John \u2062Kennedy publicly rebuked Alejandro Mayorkas, the \u2062Biden administration&#8217;s DHS\u200d head, during \u2064a Senate hearing. Kennedy criticized Mayorkas for failing to address the\u2063 border crisis effectively, \u2062highlighting concerns that illegal immigrants had benefitted more than \u2064U.S. citizens during Mayorkas&#8217;s tenure. Kennedy \u2063emphasized the lack of trust in \u2064Mayorkas \u200camong Republicans and \u200cthe\u2063 general public, suggesting\u2063 impeachment might be\u2062 warranted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Republican senator publicly scolded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alejandro-mayorkas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a>, the Biden Cabinet official who has overseen the Department of Homeland Security throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>border crisis<\/a>, adding that people did not need a Senate impeachment trial to know he was guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Kennedy<\/a> (R-LA) delivered a solemn rebuke of Mayorkas during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon and told the DHS secretary that his three years in office had rendered illegal immigrants in a better position than U.S. citizens as a result of the more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-wyoming-law-students-offer-illegal-immigrants-free-help-with-obtaining-citizenship\/\" title=\"Wyoming law students aid undocumented immigrants in gaining citizenship for free.\">8 million illegal immigrant encounters<\/a> at the southern border in that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve done nothing for four years. Nada, zero, zilch,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cIn fact, the only people I know in this country who are better off today than they were four years ago are illegal immigrants. And that\u2019s as a result of your policy.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senate Democrats may try to dismiss the impeachment charges against Sec. Mayorkas, but they can\u2019t sweep the Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BorderCrisis?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BorderCrisis<\/a> under the rug\u2014not even a rug as big as the United States of America. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YDw0XPTMR5\">pic.twitter.com\/YDw0XPTMR5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnKennedy\/status\/1778160507981062269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me no joy to say this, but most Republicans don\u2019t trust you and a vast majority of the American people don\u2019t trust you,\u201d Kennedy continued. \u201cI don\u2019t hate you for it. I don\u2019t hate anyone, but that\u2019s why you\u2019ve been impeached. And my colleagues may try to cover it up. They\u2019re going to try to cover it up, but they can\u2019t cover up the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans announced last week that they would deliver the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the Democratic-controlled Senate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the House leadership said Tuesday that the plans had fallen through and delayed the official delivery, further setting back a potential trial where Mayorkas could be convicted and removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson alleged that Senate Democrats planned to \u201csweep your impeachment under the rug and violate 200 years of Senate precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are expected to move to dismiss an impeachment trial against Mayorkas. Republicans want a full trial, though they don\u2019t appear to have the votes to force one. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy hammered Mayorkas and said whether coincidence or not, the admission of several million illegal immigrants into the United States since President Joe Biden took office has resulted in higher populations in certain states, which would lead to more electoral votes for states even though those illegal immigrants themselves cannot vote in federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it true, Mr. Secretary, that the number of illegal immigrants that you and President Biden have allowed into our country counts for allocating electoral votes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion, senator, that we intend to allow illegal immigration is nothing short of preposterous,\u201d Mayorkas said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said while people may be \u201cpoorer\u201d under Biden, they\u2019re not \u201cstupid enough to believe\u201d the Biden administration is managing the situation as best it can.<\/p>\n<p>DHS pointed to a statement issued in January that maintained the House\u2019s effort to target Mayorkas was a \u201cdistraction from other vital national security priorities and<br \/>the work Congress should be doing to actually fix our broken immigration laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas was impeached by the House two months ago for violating immigration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-reps-introduce-resolution-to-censure-biden-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"GOP reps. introduce resolution to censure Biden over border crisis\">border security laws<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a> to Congress while under oath.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Senate hearing, Sen. Kennedy (R-LA) criticized Mayorkas for his handling of the border crisis, indicating guilt without the need for an impeachment trial. The Republican senator&#8217;s public scolding of the DHS official highlighted the ongoing concerns regarding border security and management under the Biden administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2217848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24101723831253-1024x592.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24101723831253-1024x592.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217847","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\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}