Chip Roy takes aim at Mayorkas: ‘Impeachment is the nicest thing I can say about that son of a b****’
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) had harsh words for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Asked in a recent interview if he agreed with Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) that the Biden administration official should be impeached, the Texas Republican did not mince words.
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“Impeachment is the nicest thing I can say about that son of a b**** right now,” Roy told Breitbart.
In a statement, a spokesperson for DHS told the Washington Examiner, “Secretary Mayorkas is proud to advance the noble mission of this Department, support its extraordinary workforce, and serve the American people. The Department will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border, protect the nation from terrorism, improve our cybersecurity, all while building a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system.”
“Instead of pointing fingers and pursuing a baseless impeachment, Congress should work with the Department and pass legislation to fix our broken immigration system, which has not been updated in over 40 years,” the statement continued.
This comes days after the pandemic-era border policy Title 42 ended. The policy allowed Border Patrol to expel immigrants without issuing asylum hearing dates due to concerns over communicable diseases.
“This, to me, is the greatest malfeasance, and malfeasance is — it’s not a failure to act — it’s an intentional failure to act. Mayorkas should be impeached,” Emmer previously said.
Mayorkas was asked about Republican efforts to impeach him Sunday on CNN. “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. I am focused on the increasing severity of extreme weather events,” he told Dana Bash.
The secretary also revealed that immigrant encounters at the border have decreased by nearly 50% since the policy’s end. He further insisted that DHS is prepared for border enforcement post-Title 42, noting that “We have been planning for months and months — over a year and a half.”
However, reporter Bill Melugin warned that this drop off in encounters is due to more enforcement from Mexico, Texas working to block entries, and immigrants opting to go to ports of entry.
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According to the reporter, the lull in encounters is not expected to last and will rise again.
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Throughout various interviews with immigrants crossing the border in Texas, the Washington Examiner discovered that some people are being issued DHS I-862 forms with court dates extending nearly 10 years into the future.
“My court date is set for a year away in Oregon, but my mother was told to wait 10 years before she can see a judge,” one immigrant told reporters.