Arizona's Andy Biggs on the Mexican Border: IMPEACHMENT for Intentional Misconduct

 

 

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Border is 'biggest national security crisis since 9/11': Republicans demand Mayorkas be impeached

Morgan Phillips

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The border is the 'biggest national security crisis since 9/11': Republicans demand Mayorkas be impeached and fired for 'abandoning' his duty - after 16,000 migrants entered the U.S. at the weekend and with up to 6 MILLION expected this year

17:42 EST 13 Dec 2022 , updated 18:01 EST 13 Dec 2022

• 'I expect our party to pursue impeachment next Congress,' Biggs said, flanked by 20 right-wing lawmakers
• Biggs said that Mayorkas could likely be impeached for lying to Congress about having operational control of the border 
• 'We do,' responded Mayorkas to GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who asked, 'Will you testify under oath that we have operational control of the border?'
• 'What's happening on the border right now is the biggest national security failure since 9/11,' said Trump-era ICE director Tom Homan 
• Rep. Doug LaMalfa spouted off about press calling border crossers 'migrants' and said Mayorkas should go way of nuclear waste official Sam Brinton
• 'Why don't we ask the president's administration to remove Mayorkas? They removed the little dude stealing suitcases recently' 

Nearly 20 Republicans led by Rep. Andy Biggs renewed fresh calls to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and laid out a number of high crimes and misdemeanors they believe he has committed. 

'I expect our party to pursue impeachment next Congress,' Biggs said, flanked by conservative lawmakers. 'His conduct is not incompetent. It's not negligent. It is willful and intentional.' . .

 

 

The Arizona Republican, who has launched a bid for speaker when Republicans take the House in January, said that Mayorkas has also 'willfully' failed to maintain operational control as defined by the 2006 Secure Fence Act, fas failed to detain illegal immigrants as required by law and has abused his 'narrow authority' to parole immigrants into the United States. 

After the news conference, Biggs told reporters he is challenging GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy in part because he has not committed to pursuing impeachment against Mayorkas. McCarthy has left the door open for doing so. . .

Still, Biggs promised 'due process' for the Biden-appointed DHS secretary. 

 

'We'll have due process. We'll conduct our investigation. But I am confident when that investigation is concluded. The facts that we've produced today will be revealed to you today - which should not be a mystery to anybody whose eyes are open - they will agree that he should be impeached.'

Other Republicans insisted they were not looking to impeach the secretary for political purposes. 

'Impeachment is not a tool for incompetence. It is not a tool for negligence. It is a tool for willful action to harm the country. That is what we see each and every day from Mayorkas,' said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. 

Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, said border agents had arrested 116 nationals from state sponsors of terrorism. 

'What's happening on the border right now is the biggest national security failure since 9/11. That should scare the hell out of everybody,' he said. 

Over the weekend, there were 16,000 unlawful migrant crossings at the southern border and $97 million worth of narcotics were seized. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) sources have said there have been already more than 500,000 encounters this fiscal year, which began in October. 

'If it's not already abundantly clear Alejandro Mayorkas has forsaken his sworn oath to protect the southern border, I don't know when it's going to be more clear,' said Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas. 

'He has abandoned his constitutional obligation - willfully, I might add - and should be impeached immediately.'

 . . . Next week with the end of the Covid-era Title 42 the number of migrants crossing at the southern border could swell up to 18,000 crossers per day, officials estimate. 

Earlier on Tuesday a bipartisan group of lawmakers - Reps. Anthony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, called on the Biden administration to extend Title 42. " READ MORE