"When we return next week, by necessity, the Homeland Security Committee will move forward with Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas. A vote on the floor will be held as soon as possible thereafter," Johnson wrote in a letter to his Republican colleagues dated Jan. 26. According to the House Speaker, facts showed that President Joe Biden and Mayorkas have willfully ignored and actively undermined the country's immigration laws. "Rather than accept accountability, President Biden is now trying to blame Congress for what he intentionally created," he wrote. "The American people know better, and that’s why public opinion polls show the country has overwhelmingly sided with us on the issue."
Johnson met with the president and negotiators at the White House last week to compromise on a deal on a supplemental funding package that would include funding for both border security and foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel. But the Republican congressman noted that negotiations appeared to have stalled in the Senate. "If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway," he added, referencing an alleged leaked draft that purportedly included a provision allowing the release of 5,000 illegal immigrants per day into the country, among other concessions.
Biden vowed on Friday, Jan. 26, to "shut down the border" when overwhelmed. "What's been negotiated would – if passed into law – be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we've ever had in our country," the POTUS said in a statement, referring to the deal being brokered in the U.S. Senate. "It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law."
Meanwhile, if it pushes through, Mayorkas would be the second Cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached. The first one was Secretary of War William W. Belknap in 1876. However, the Senate later acquitted the latter.
Johnson backs Abbott's strict border policies
In the same letter, Johnson voiced his support for Texas Governor Greg Abbott's efforts, adding that House Republicans would "vigorously oppose" any White House or Senate policy proposal "that would further incentivize illegal aliens to break our laws."
Texas authorities seized control of a public park in Eagle Pass, along the Rio Grande, earlier this month and started to put up razor wire to discourage illegal immigrants from crossing the border. The U.S. Supreme Court then ruled that federal authorities could remove the wire. Texas, however, did not stop installing it.
"We have to do something," Staff Sgt. Rene Cordova, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety, told reporters at a Jan. 23 press conference. Once the news spreads that Border Patrol is cutting the razor wire, the illegal immigrants will return, and "it won't take them long to figure it out," he said.
Abbott continued to defend his state's actions on X. "The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," he said. "President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration."
The governor noted that more than six million illegal aliens had crossed the southern border under the Biden regime. "That is more than the population of 33 different states in this country." (Related: Abbott declares the federal government HAS FAILED TEXAS by refusing to protect the border and defend against migrant invasion.)
Meanwhile, analysts contended that Abbott is not violating any law. "SCOTUS vacated an order against the Department of Homeland Security that stopped the Feds from cutting down razor fencing along the border. Nothing says that Texas can't erect the fencing," an article on the Federalist stated.
Also, Article I of the U.S. Constitution indicates that a state has the constitutional authority to defend itself, and that it supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. "The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border," Abbott further said.
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