GOP to release damaging memo alleging Mayorkas broke the law: Report
House Republicans are gearing up to release a damning report alleging that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas flouted immigration law by executing the Biden administration’s open-border policies.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) opened the initial part of his inquiry into Mayorkas on June 14 and expects to drop a document detailing his panel’s initial findings in the coming weeks.
Green teased that he has been proofreading the final report, which he estimates to be “like 111 pages” long, in an interview with the Daily Caller published Wednesday.
“There’s the lying to Congress, there’s the CBP One app, which is just this big shell game to produce automatic mass parole in violation of the laws passed by Congress. It is a wanton disregard for the separation of powers and the Constitution of the United States,” Green told the outlet.
GOP critics contend that Mayorkas lied to Congress when he insisted last year that DHS has “operational control over the border.”
Additionally, Mayorkas backed the creation of the CBP One app that Green referenced, which enables asylum seekers to get appointments to enter the US.
Privately, Green has told donors that he plans to build up an impeachment case against Mayorkas, the New York Times reported earlier this year.
Several Republicans have already introduced articles of impeachment against Mayorkas on multiple occasions, but appear to lack the votes to see it through.
Mayorkas has been a frequent political punching bag for congressional Republicans irked by conditions at the border, which has seen a record-setting influx of migrants during the Biden Administration.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has also called on Mayorkas to resign and floated impeachment.
Many backers of impeachment have flatly accused Mayorkas of dereliction of duty, something Green teased will be discussed in the upcoming report.
“He admitted in the Senate that he didn’t understand the cartel strategy despite the fact that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland very clearly understood it when he testified,” the lawmaker explained.
That appears to be a reference to Mayorkas not knowing about the wristbands that cartels use to identify the amount of debt border-crossers owe during testimony in Congress earlier this year.
“If you’re the guy who’s in charge of homeland security and protecting the borders and going against the cartels, you probably ought to understand the major strategies of the drug cartels,” Green continued.
Mayorkas has largely brushed off the talk of impeachment, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” in May that “I am focused on the work in front of us.”
“Meeting the challenge, not only with respect to the Southern border, but meeting the challenge of the cyber threat from cyber criminals and adverse foreign nation-states,” he said. “I am focused on the increasing severity of extreme weather events.”
Green also told the Daily Caller his investigation will eventually include information from anonymous officials, who the Republican hopes will claim whistleblower protections and testify publicly.
“They have reluctance to do so because of what’s happened at the DOJ with the guys who came clean there and then got bullied by the leadership,” Green said. “So they’re obviously very concerned. I mean, this administration has no concept of law and order, and so these people are very concerned.
“We just have to figure out a way to make sure we can guarantee the protection because some of these people, they have their retirements on the line.”
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