House Panel Releases Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

A House panel released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The first article says that Mayorkas “repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security.”

“In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States. His refusal to obey the law is not only an offense against the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States, it also threatens our national security and has had a dire impact on communities across the country,” the document reads.

The second article states that Mayorkas “knowingly made false statements, and knowingly obstructed lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security … principally to obfuscate the results of his willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.”

DHS released a memo claiming that the upcoming markup is “just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee (CHS) Republicans.”

“They don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it. That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas,” the memo reads.

In November, Mayorkas testified that the crisis at the southern border was not a “disaster.”

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) asked Mayorkas, “So the situation at the border, you’re saying, is not a disaster?”

Mayorkas responded, “That is correct.”