Secretary Mayorkas willfully allowing millions to invade the country is not just a “policy dispute.”
As the House Homeland Security Committee advanced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over an invasion of the country by millions, Democrats and some Republicans argued that it was a “policy dispute” and not impeachable.
“Political and policy disagreements aren’t impeachable offenses,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The Journal‘s own editorial board used that same line in its own subheader opposing impeachment, arguing that, “a policy dispute doesn’t qualify as a high crime and misdemeanor.”
Democrats have been making that argument all along.
The Democrat Committee on Homeland Security put forward a 45-page statement which mentions the word “policy” 45 times, and argues that, “iImpeachment is an extraordinary remedy under the United States Constitution. It is not a tool for policy or political differences.”
“This is simply a policy dispute, a disagreement about how a different party is attacking a policy problem. And the Republicans are trying to abuse their power and the Constitution to convert what is simply a disagreement into somehow some way, a high crime and misdemeanor there is no crime, much less a high crime or misdemeanor here,” Rep Dan Goldman contended.
Impeachment is not an “extraordinary remedy”, it’s just the ultimate form of congressional oversight. Presidents are not kings, they do not have unlimited power to do whatever they please, and cabinet members may be appointed by presidents, but they must be approved and serve at the pleasure of two branches of the federal government, and not just of one single man.
The same Democrats protesting that impeaching Mayorkas is an abuse of power were responsible for sending Peter Navarro, a former Trump official, to prison for refusing to testify before their partisan committee. That was and is an extraordinary abuse of power.
Mayorkas, unlike Navarro, is a sitting government official. Impeachment, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers, involves those “offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.”
Impeachable offenses “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself,” he wrote.
It’s hard to think of a better example than allowing millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, and doing everything possible to wilfully impede the efforts of states trying to slow that invasion.
As the internet meme goes, Homeland Security had one job. Is our homeland secure?
Entire cities have been overloaded and are groaning under the weight of an invasion that has no precedent in American history. Major cities are swarmed, police officers are being assaulted in broad daylight and stores are being cleaned out by massive mobs of illegal migrant invaders.
There were 2.5 million encounters at the border in the last fiscal year alone. And that does not count the millions more who were never ‘encountered’. The same House Committee on Homeland Security moving to impeach Secretary Mayorkas had released statistics showing that there were 269,735 encounters in just the last month of the fiscal year.
Nearly 7 million illegal alien invaders have shown up on Mayorkas’ and Biden’s watch. They include tens of thousands of gang members and criminals, hundreds of terrorists and enough fentanyl to kill every American ten times over… and those are just the ones that we caught.
Is 7 million illegal invaders a policy dispute or a war?
Biden, Mayorkas and other officials claim that they’re helpless to act and that they’re doing the best that they can, and that House Republicans can fix the problem with a “border deal.”
All of that is a lie.
The Biden administration calculatedly set out to dismantle every border security policy. It ended construction of the border wall and sued Arizona and Texas for trying to fortify their own borders. It fought in court to end Title 42 authority by claiming that the pandemic was over even as Biden tried to justify his massive student loan bailout plan because of the pandemic. It went to court to be able to not only release illegal alien invaders into America, but to do so without court dates.
When a court blocked the release of illegal aliens without court dates, Secretary Mayorkas denounced it as a “very harmful ruling.” During the negotiations for a ‘border deal’, the Biden administration insisted that preventing it from releasing illegal aliens into the country was a ‘red line’ that it could not compromise on. That’s because releasing them is the whole point.
You can file this under “treason” or “high crimes and misdemeanors”, but it is at its most elemental, a profound breach of the public trust with massively catastrophic consequences.
It is a “policy dispute” in the same sense that announcing China can freely invade California or that anyone born before 1959 can be freely killed without fear of prosecution is a policy dispute. In theory every policy position, no matter how horrifying, is a policy dispute. Public officials should not be casually impeached over policy disagreements, they should however be impeached when their malicious actions violate their duties and cause tremendous harm.
Of all the impeachments over the years, impeaching Mayorkas may be the most justified.
Past impeachments have often been partisan exercises or like the impeachment of Judge Alcee Hastings for bribery (who then became a long serving Democrat congressman) a matter of personal corruption where the overall public harm was either intangible or negligible.
The impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is not a matter of personal misconduct. There is no evidence that he is stealing, conducting an affair, taking or soliciting bribes or corrupting the government for his own personal agendas. His only actual crime is following orders.
And that’s the only argument against impeaching Mayorkas. He’s not acting on his own.
Enabling the mass invasion of the United States is not the action of one man, but of an administration, which has used every federal agency at its disposal, including the EPA, to enable that invasion, which has dispensed a fortune to the invaders to encourage them to invade, and another fortune to the refugee resettlers to make sure that they never leave.
And it’s not just the policy of one man or one administration, but of a party that has spent decades conniving, scheming and maneuvering, since the Kennedy administration, to fundamentally transform immigration law in order to shift the national demographics and the political culture through laws, UN treaties, economic incentives and the neglect of existing laws.
Elected officials can advocate for laws, no matter how destructive, and they can even lie about the consequences of those laws, as JFK and Ted Kennedy did about the shift toward third world immigration, as LBJ did about the disastrous UN refugee treaty that is at the heart of our asylum problem today, and as Senate Democrats did about their amnesty in 1986. But that amnesty, part of another in a series of “border deals” became part of the trend of not only advocating, but ignoring and refusing to enforce immigration laws. And then creating anti-immigration laws, such as sanctuary cities and states, and a federal crackdown on state immigration enforcement.
Beyond a refusal to enforce laws, Obama initiated a unilateral amnesty for some illegal aliens as part of what was deemed “selective enforcement” and “discretion”. That already illegal policy evolved under Biden into virtually no enforcement for anyone except the worst of the worst.
Elected officials and appointees have certain responsibilities, regardless of their partisan agendas, and there are consequences for failing to uphold them. As a partisan political appointee, Secretary Mayorkas would inevitably work toward open borders, as has every Democrat before him, but that did not change his responsibility to his official duties.
Overseeing and implementing an invasion is incompatible with those duties.
Elected officials can have policy disputes, but appointed officials are managing the machinery of the state which must continue to run despite their partisan leanings. An anti-war secretary of defense cannot simply drive all the tanks into the ocean and announce that the United States will no longer defend itself against enemy invasions. And, contrariwise, a conservative EPA head cannot reject the concept of pollution and refuse to fulfill the responsibilities of his office.
That is what Secretary Mayorkas has done. He was following orders, but that’s no excuse. Cabinet members may be chosen by presidents, but they answer to two branches of the government. That second branch of the government is preparing to impeach Mayorkas for actions that have wrecked entire cities, trashed much of the country and cost countless lives.
No one died because of anything that Clinton or Trump faced impeachment for, but people have died in sizable numbers because of the action and inaction of Secretary Mayorkas and Biden. The murders, fentanyl overdoses and diseases spreading across the nation are a crime. They are a high crime whose origin lies with the policies of Mayorkas and the Biden administration.
If a political official willfully refusing to do his duty leading to an invasion of millions and the deaths of over a hundred people doesn’t justify impeachment, what possibly does?
somehistory says
Many of us are not experts in political matters; I’m one who has never been interested in politics. However, knowing a bit of Law, a bit of the Constitution, a bit about the responsibilities of the federal government, I can tell the difference in what is against Law, the Constitution, and the responsibilities; and how different people decide to abide by these.
mayorkas has not been fulfilling his responsibilities according to Law….which says quite a bit in the Constitution about *keeping out invaders* and *protecting citizens* from foreign invaders.
Before 9/11 there was no “homeland security” department. Supposedly, it was created to **keep the homeland secure**….involving the fbi and other agencies which would be under the one “department” overseen by a “director”
Any fool can see that he has been aiding and abetting the invasion rather than repelling it. Any fool can see that instead of applying the Law to keep out “foreign invaders,” he has been breaking laws in order to allow millions in.
And we are not “fools.” We see clearly.
mayorkas and his arrogant nose in the air, is a lawbreaker, not a lawkeeper.
Clifton T. Moberg says
all the illegal immigrants already “in” will make him a saint.
medaber_emet says
Lets Go Brandon
ed says
But biden is still in office
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Didn’t the House Republicans already try that once, & fail? The ugly truth is that the Dems have working supermajorities in both House & Senate. That’s why they managed to expel George Santos, but there’s no way there are similarly enough Dems to cross sides w/ the Republicans to expel Ilhan Omar
There needs to be a lot of members primaried this year, so that we don’t have this issue next year
Transmaster says
I have studied American history is detail. I have never seen a political party commit suicide like the Democrats are right now Things were bad for the Democrats after the civil war but they managed to hang on long enough to re establish themselves mostly in the South were they continued their racist mantra. Blacks where solidly Republican until FDR and the New Deal, and President Johnson cemented it with The Great Society. What we are seeing now is the Blacks and hispanic shifting in mass to the Republican party. The Democrats are showing what they really thought about minorities in the US, nothing but a voting block. It is this demographic that is being most affected by the economic refugees coming across the border. This falls election is going to be historic.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think they’ve seen how successful they’ve been in making California GOP-proof, & are wagering that they can pull off the same scam on the rest of the country. Except that unlike in the previous case, where conservative Californians fled to Texas, Arizona and Idaho, in a nationwide scenario, conservatives would have nowhere else in the world to go. Result has been the pushback that they’ve been seeing, but I think they know that it’s too late for them to change course. As a result, here they are!
David M says
The Dems plan is to allow for the replacement migration illegal immigrant mob to vote. First they will get them into the army & the Police, then grant them citizenship so they can vote for them. Don’t believe it? It’s true.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-illinois-police-officers-illegal-immigrants-law-1816306
https://www.us-immigration.com/blog/undocumented-immigrants-to-be-allowed-to-serve-in-the-military/
garry pollack says
He truely enjoys being digusting & repulsive…
Sue says
Add Kamala Harris to the “needs to be impeached” list.
…and pray for all of them.