Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed an impeachment resolution against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "High crimes and misdemeanors" over the Biden administration's failure to stop a flood of immigrants from illegally entering the United States.
MTG's resolution goes on to cite Article II of the Constitution, which requires that "The Executive branch, which today includes the Secretary of Homeland Security, ensure the laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the President are faithfully executed," as well as the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which requires that the Secretary of Homeland Security "Maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States."
"In his willful admittance of border crossers, terrorists, human traffickers, drugs, and other contraband, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas has failed to maintain operational control of the border, thereby violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006.".
As the Washington Examiner notes, "The 10 million number referenced in the resolution combines 8 million encounters at the southern border with another 1.8 million"gotaways," or immigrants who managed to evade U.S. border officials and remain in the country to this day.
She also accuses Mayorkas of failing to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States via the southern border - noting that Customs and Border Patrol has seized approximately 11,200 pounds of the drug during 2021, and another 14,700 in 2022.
"Over 70,000 Americans died from fentanyl in fiscal year 2022," reads the resolution.
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