On Friday, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) called for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to be impeached, claiming that the main border official’s “failure to act” requires Congress to remove him from his job.
“He should be impeached,” Emmer said because Mayorkas has not resigned.
Most Americans have come to realize that the border crisis brought on by the Biden administration is not through sheer incompetence. It’s intentional.
During a one-on-one interview in his Capitol Hill office on Friday, the Minnesota Republican dug into the contentious topic of impeachment, claiming the overburdened southern border constitutes the “greatest malfeasance” at the hands of President Joe Biden‘s senior border official.
“They talk about being humane. Children are disappearing. People are getting killed,” Emmer explained. “You’ve got 80 people that have come across the southern border that are on the terrorist watch list.”
Emmer’s remarks came the day after Biden dropped the Title 42 border barrier, a regulation enacted by former President Donald Trump in the name of coronavirus that has functioned as one of the last instruments for border agents to use in order to prevent waves of illegal immigrants.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELAccording to federal records, the Biden administration had almost five million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border prior to Thursday.
“This, to me, is the greatest malfeasance, and malfeasance is — it’s not a failure to act — it’s an intentional failure to act. Mayorkas should be impeached,” Emmer said. “I think we should be talking seriously about that regardless of what this feckless Senate might want to do.”
Emmer, the House’s third-ranking Republican, also concluded that the Biden administration has “blood on their hands,” echoing what House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) declared at a press conference the day before.
“Mayorkas is guilty of child abuse, in my opinion, by not vetting the sponsors of the parents, supposedly, or sponsors of these children,” McCaul told reporters minutes after the House passed Republicans’ flagship border security package on Thursday.
However, Emmer’s remarks are the GOP leadership’s harshest denunciation yet of Biden’s border chief, and they represent an escalation from earlier this year when the Minnesota Republican claimed impeachment was only “possible” given the surge in illegal migration since Biden got into office.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said back in March that impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas were on the table.
“The one thing I’ve always said is that we’re not like the Democrats; we don’t do impeachment just for political purposes,” McCarthy said. “But if something rises to that occasion — that’s why we will do all the homework on what has transpired down here, and if that reaches to an impeachment inquiry, we’ll follow through with that.”
When questioned further on taking such a drastic measure against Mayorkas, Emmer doubled down on his remark.
While some in his conference may have “constitutional disagreements” about whether impeachment is the appropriate course of action, “actual law and precedent that’s been set” imply impeachment is the next step.
“I know that we’re going to have members — much like other constitutional disagreements we’ve had, there’s probably going to be a member who says … who’s a stickler about high crimes and misdemeanors,” Emmer added. “I believe if you look at the actual law and the precedent that’s been set — and forget about the phony impeachment stuff that the Democrats have been doing for political stunts — this one’s a real, real issue. You can see the pictures live every day. You have an administration and an idiot that’s in charge of the border. I don’t know where 85,000 children went.”
“Please,” Emmer urged. “It’s time for him to go. He should do the honorable thing and resign. He won’t. Therefore, he should be impeached.”
