Gross Negligence: Why House Republicans Have More Than Enough To Impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas

The House of Representatives’ newly elected GOP majority has many tasks: investigations into COVID origins, a debt ceiling negotiation, and President Biden’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 impeachment Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, must be a top priority.

Democrats and some Republicans disagree with this admittedly severe course of action. They argue that Mayorkas’ 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. “high crime or misdemeanor” is whatever Congress says it is, so what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Even under more traditional definitions, however, Mayorkas’ shambolic tenure has more than risen to the needed level of negligence and dishonesty.

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. Alec Baldwin.

Secretary Mayorkas hasn’t just failed to perform in his mission to secure the southern frontier, he has also simply not been a good enough person. refused to do it All of them.

How can we be sure? We know it because he won’t even admit the border is not secure. In fiscal year 2022, migrant crossings reached a record and shocking, 2.76 million — one million higher than any previous year. And it’s 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’s the very definition of gross negligence.

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.

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 — 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’s utterly despicable.

Mayorkas claimed he was “horrified,” The horses were also euthanized. “weaponized.” But new emails The Heritage Foundation obtained documents that show that Biden administration officials informed him within days that he needed clarifications because reins aren’t whips. The Biden administration officials failed to clarify the remarks. He also told Congress that an inquiry would be initiated “in a matter of days, not weeks.” 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.

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’s an absolute disgrace and more than impeachable. From Biden’s document scandal to Mayorkas’ 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’s time for some consequences.

Impeaching Mayorkas would not be a political stunt — in fact, it wouldn’t 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’t because of incompetence or laziness — it is intentional. Even the lies about whipping were intended as a distraction from his numerous failures.

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.

David Marcus is a columnist and author of “Charade:

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