Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Republicans tell Homeland Secretary to RESIGN over border chaos or face impeachment<!-- wp:html --><div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The leader of the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy, called the Sec. of Homeland Security. Alejandro Mayorkas will resign during a press conference in El Paso, Texas, following a visit to the border.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘Today I am asking the Secretary to resign. He cannot and should not remain in that position,’ said McCarthy, R-Calif., adding that if Mayorkas does not resign, he will seek impeachment. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure and determine if we can launch an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy continued, flanked by other Republican members of Congress. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">During McCarthy’s last visit to the border in April 2022, he left the door open for Mayorkas’s removal, a prospect that has been raised by several House Republicans. But the leader has asserted that he will not use impeachment for political gain.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘[A]“Anytime, if someone doesn’t do their job, there’s always the option to charge someone,” McCarthy said at the time. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“If Secretary Mayorkas was running any company, he’d be fired by now,” McCarthy said Tuesday. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">McCarthy claimed that there have been 4 million illegal crossings since President Biden took office.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">That’s not the worst part. Now that Title 42 can end, we are preparing for a tsunami. People talk about 18,000 crossings a day which would mean 13 million more illegal crossings for the rest of Joe Biden’s term, if nothing changes, think about that.’</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Title 42 is the pandemic-era health restriction that allowed border agents to immediately remove migrants. Last week, a judge ruled that Title 42 is illegal, but gave the Biden administration a five-week stay on the order to get its post-Title 42 plan in order. They have until midnight Dec. 21 to continue to use the law to expel migrants. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that Republicans “have no plans” to tackle immigration and engage only in “political gimmickry” as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy leads a delegation from Congress to the border at El Paso. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They do nothing but political tricks,” Jean-Pierre told reporters about the GOP-led trip at a news conference on Tuesday. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“He goes in there and does a political stunt, like a lot of Republicans do, which we’ve seen them do, but he’s not really laying out a plan, a plan to help us, you know, deal with a problem that we don’t.” we’re all seeing that you’re all reporting,’ he continued. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Jean-Pierre said that Biden had presented a comprehensive immigration plan on his “first day” in the White House. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">She continued: ‘We have partnered with Mexico and Guatemala to address criminal smuggling networks that prey on immigrants. Those efforts have already resulted in thousands of arrests because of the work this president has done. He brought together 20 leaders to collaboratively manage the immigration challenge affecting the entire Western Hemisphere. And we’re stopping fentanyl before it even hits the streets of the United States. So we have a plan.</p> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They don’t do anything except political tricks,” Jean-Pierre told reporters about the GOP-led trip at a news conference.</p> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Jean-Pierre said that Biden had presented a comprehensive immigration plan on his “first day” in the White House.</p> </div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">On January 20, 2021, Biden sent the Never Passed Citizenship Act to Congress. The bill would have protected millions of people from deportation, established a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the US, and provided more funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among other priorities. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">On the charge of not having “a plan,” McCarthy’s office pointed to a chart they produced in April 2021. It listed the steps they wanted to take to stop the flow of illegal migration: finish the wall between the US and Mexico, reinstate the ‘Remain in Mexico policy, tighten Title 42 Covid restrictions, require a negative Covid test before releasing migrants to the US.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">McCarthy, along with Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is leading a delegation to El Paso to “express gratitude” to the border patrol ahead of the holiday and participate in operational briefings. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font"> McCarthy has set his sights on the border after border agents saw a record 2.4 million official encounters with migrants in fiscal year 2022, according to Customs and Border Patrol.<a target="_blank" class="class" href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" rel="noopener"> figures. </a> </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">In a letter to fellow Republicans last week, McCarthy called the southern border the most important issue facing the new Congress. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“Perhaps no issue requires more immediate and dedicated attention than our border security, which the Biden Administration has actively undermined over the past two years,” he wrote. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The GOP leader threatened subpoenas and withholding funds to address border security. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘More importantly, I will send a message to Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer that this new Republican majority will use every tool at our disposal in the next Congress, from the power of money to the power of the subpoena, to secure the border. . This was explicitly stated in our Pledge to America and I ask for your support and decision on this matter.’ </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Just before the November 8 election, McCarthy told CNN that his first order of business would be a border security bill. </p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“The first thing you’re going to see is a bill to control the border first,” McCarthy said. You have to control the border. You’ve had almost 2 million people coming this year alone.’</p> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Karla, 5, from Honduras, stands near family members as they wait for border patrol agents to search them after being smuggled across the Rio Grande from Mexico to Roma, Texas, USA, on November 18, 2019.</p> </div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">McCarthy said his party had “a number of different ways” to approach the southern border, but stressed that they would not move forward on immigration reform until the flow of immigrants across the border stopped.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“I think ‘Stay in Mexico’ you have to have it right away,” McCarthy said, referring to the Migrant Protection Protocols that require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their claim goes to court. The Biden administration ended the policy in August.</p> </div><!-- /wp:html -->

The leader of the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy, called the Sec. of Homeland Security. Alejandro Mayorkas will resign during a press conference in El Paso, Texas, following a visit to the border.

‘Today I am asking the Secretary to resign. He cannot and should not remain in that position,’ said McCarthy, R-Calif., adding that if Mayorkas does not resign, he will seek impeachment.

“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure and determine if we can launch an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy continued, flanked by other Republican members of Congress.

During McCarthy’s last visit to the border in April 2022, he left the door open for Mayorkas’s removal, a prospect that has been raised by several House Republicans. But the leader has asserted that he will not use impeachment for political gain.

‘[A]“Anytime, if someone doesn’t do their job, there’s always the option to charge someone,” McCarthy said at the time.

“If Secretary Mayorkas was running any company, he’d be fired by now,” McCarthy said Tuesday.

McCarthy claimed that there have been 4 million illegal crossings since President Biden took office.

That’s not the worst part. Now that Title 42 can end, we are preparing for a tsunami. People talk about 18,000 crossings a day which would mean 13 million more illegal crossings for the rest of Joe Biden’s term, if nothing changes, think about that.’

Title 42 is the pandemic-era health restriction that allowed border agents to immediately remove migrants. Last week, a judge ruled that Title 42 is illegal, but gave the Biden administration a five-week stay on the order to get its post-Title 42 plan in order. They have until midnight Dec. 21 to continue to use the law to expel migrants.

Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that Republicans “have no plans” to tackle immigration and engage only in “political gimmickry” as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy leads a delegation from Congress to the border at El Paso.

McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They do nothing but political tricks,” Jean-Pierre told reporters about the GOP-led trip at a news conference on Tuesday.

“He goes in there and does a political stunt, like a lot of Republicans do, which we’ve seen them do, but he’s not really laying out a plan, a plan to help us, you know, deal with a problem that we don’t.” we’re all seeing that you’re all reporting,’ he continued.

Jean-Pierre said that Biden had presented a comprehensive immigration plan on his “first day” in the White House.

She continued: ‘We have partnered with Mexico and Guatemala to address criminal smuggling networks that prey on immigrants. Those efforts have already resulted in thousands of arrests because of the work this president has done. He brought together 20 leaders to collaboratively manage the immigration challenge affecting the entire Western Hemisphere. And we’re stopping fentanyl before it even hits the streets of the United States. So we have a plan.

McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They don’t do anything except political tricks,” Jean-Pierre told reporters about the GOP-led trip at a news conference.

Jean-Pierre said that Biden had presented a comprehensive immigration plan on his “first day” in the White House.

On January 20, 2021, Biden sent the Never Passed Citizenship Act to Congress. The bill would have protected millions of people from deportation, established a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the US, and provided more funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among other priorities.

On the charge of not having “a plan,” McCarthy’s office pointed to a chart they produced in April 2021. It listed the steps they wanted to take to stop the flow of illegal migration: finish the wall between the US and Mexico, reinstate the ‘Remain in Mexico policy, tighten Title 42 Covid restrictions, require a negative Covid test before releasing migrants to the US.

McCarthy, along with Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is leading a delegation to El Paso to “express gratitude” to the border patrol ahead of the holiday and participate in operational briefings.

McCarthy has set his sights on the border after border agents saw a record 2.4 million official encounters with migrants in fiscal year 2022, according to Customs and Border Patrol. figures.

In a letter to fellow Republicans last week, McCarthy called the southern border the most important issue facing the new Congress.

“Perhaps no issue requires more immediate and dedicated attention than our border security, which the Biden Administration has actively undermined over the past two years,” he wrote.

The GOP leader threatened subpoenas and withholding funds to address border security.

‘More importantly, I will send a message to Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer that this new Republican majority will use every tool at our disposal in the next Congress, from the power of money to the power of the subpoena, to secure the border. . This was explicitly stated in our Pledge to America and I ask for your support and decision on this matter.’

Just before the November 8 election, McCarthy told CNN that his first order of business would be a border security bill.

“The first thing you’re going to see is a bill to control the border first,” McCarthy said. You have to control the border. You’ve had almost 2 million people coming this year alone.’

Karla, 5, from Honduras, stands near family members as they wait for border patrol agents to search them after being smuggled across the Rio Grande from Mexico to Roma, Texas, USA, on November 18, 2019.

McCarthy said his party had “a number of different ways” to approach the southern border, but stressed that they would not move forward on immigration reform until the flow of immigrants across the border stopped.

“I think ‘Stay in Mexico’ you have to have it right away,” McCarthy said, referring to the Migrant Protection Protocols that require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their claim goes to court. The Biden administration ended the policy in August.

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