Promise to Impeach Mayorkas Fizzles

Conservative News DailyFebruary 28, 2023

Matt Gaetz, a Florida Rep., says that he and his fellow House Republicans don’t have enough votes to fulfill their 2022 campaign promise to impeach Homeland security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. They consider Mayorkas’ failure to uphold his oath in causing the border crisis.

“We don’t have the votes,” Gaetz stated Monday that The Washington Times reported.

“I don’t think we’re close to having the votes,” Gaetz responded when further questions were raised.

Mayorkas has been the subject of several impeachment proceedings by the Republican Congressmen. They claim that the Biden administration’s policy has led to a record number and number of migrants crossing the border at the southwest U.S. border, and that Mayorkas and others have failed to do enough to address these problems.

Mayorkas acknowledged that there are border problems, but he argues they are part and parcel of the global immigration problem. He has dismissed calls for impeachment and said he is focused on his job.

The impeachment process would almost certainly come to an end in the Democrat controlled Senate.https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/kevin-mccarthy-alejandro-mayorkas-republican-impeachment-effort/index.html”>mpeaching Only once has a Cabinet official been elected in American history..

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs Mayorkas filed the first impeachment articles in August 2021.

“I believe Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,” Near that time, he also mentioned trying to impeach Mayorkas. “What he has done has just been unconscionable. I’m pushing hard.”

Texas Rep. Chip Roy So-called For his fellow Republicans to join him last March in impeaching Mayorkas, but no articles have been filed.

One month later, the then-House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy The idea of impeaching Homeland Security secretary was floated. He has been cautious about the politically sensitive matter.

Texs Rep. Pat Fallon Mayorkas was indicted for impeachment last month.