Impeach Mayorkas Now! He purposely endangers Americans, violates the law says Rep Roy

While the world’s attention has been directed toward Ukraine, the border of the United States is more dangerous, broken, and unsecure than ever. It demands our immediate attention and collective call for the impeachment of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas.

Rep Roy to Biden:

Executive branch officials take an oath upon entering office to support and defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and Domestic

Secretary’s oath requires the Secretary to “well and faithfully discharge the duties of the The United States Congress – the representatives of the people – have enacted immigration and border security laws that require the Secretary of Homeland Security to maintain operational control of the border and to detain and expel aliens who do not have a legal right to be here. These laws exist for the protection of American citizens and the migrants whoseek to come here.

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a duty as required by law to “take all actions the Secretary determines necessary and appropriate to achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.”6 Secretary Mayorkas has not only failed to maintain operational control of the border, defined in law as the “prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband,”7 but his actions have also actively facilitated the loss of it – he is an accomplice to the violation of our laws and our national sovereignty.

Those laws, established by Congress and ordered by the courts, are being ignored to achieve a specific desired outcome not supported by the law: establishing a wide-open border to issue legal status to as many illegal migrants as possible.

To accomplish this objective, he has refused to spend congressionally appropriated dollars, has disobeyed our immigration and border security laws, failed to prosecute cases as the law requires, violated court orders to carry out his duty to secure our borders, and has actively mislead the American people and Congress in working to disclose the extent of the border crisis. Specifically, he:

• Terminated construction of the border wall, despite Congressional appropriation
• Caused CBP to become dangerously overwhelmed and unable to execute its statutory dutiesby failing to utilize readily available legal tools to avert the border crisis
• Released migrants, ignoring his duty and the law, into the interior of the United States
• Refused, purposefully, to enforce interior immigration laws and removal requirements
• Lied to the American people and to Congress in saying the southern border was “closed”

c. Secretary Mayorkas has willfully, actively, and unnecessarily put Americans in danger

While the world’s attention has been directed toward Ukraine, the border of the United States is more dangerous, broken, and unsecure than ever. It demands our immediate attention and collective call for the impeachment of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Secretary Mayorkas just over one year ago & he subsequently took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to “well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office.” Yet, following the orders of President Biden or acting on his own – he has embarked on the purposeful abandonment of the laws of the United States and the successful policies of the previous administration to secure our borders and protect our people.

His actions have resulted in the death and endangerment of Americans, damage to property and communities across the border, loss of operational control of our border to dangerous cartels imprisoning thousands of migrants sold into human trafficking, and the fueling of deadly drug poisonings of thousands of Americans.

It is most certainly a “high crime or misdemeanor” for a public officer to purposefully endanger Americans while willfully ignoring one’s oath to enforce our laws. Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas is our duty. We should call for it now – despite Democrat control of the House – and make the case for immediate border security better than any speeches we can give or bills we can introduce.

Sincerely,

Chip Roy
Member of Congress

Impeachment does not require a criminal offense or a specific violation of statute, though it is worth noting that Mayorkas has violated many laws in letter and in spirit. The Constitution uses the phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” to describe impeachable conduct. The founders understood that term to include offenses such as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, disobeying an order from Parliament, neglect, abusing the power of office, or simply being unfit to serve.1

In the simplest of terms, Mayorkas has failed to do his job to secure the border of the United States, and his failure has caused severe harm to thousands of Americans and migrants. Secretary Mayorkas’s actions exhibit impeachable conduct as the founders understood it. Secretary Mayorkas has willfully chosen to ignore his oath to defend the Constitution and to faithfully execute the laws of the United States.

a. Failure to Faithfully Execute the Laws of the U.S.

Article II of the Constitution requires that the President “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”2 Though “faithfully executing the laws” is not explicitly written to apply to cabinet secretaries,