Democratic Congressman Torches Republicans At Mayorkas Impeachment Hearing

Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman exposed the hypocrisy and lawlessness of the Republican Party during a debate in the House Homeland Security Committee about their articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The committee met today to debate and vote on articles of impeachment against Mayorkas for purportedly failing to enforce immigration and border laws—which is not an impeachable offense.

“You’re changing your tune now because you said the quiet part out loud that this is all about politics,” said Goldman, referring to House Republicans’ refusal to take up a bipartisan bill under negotiation in the Senate that would address issues at the southern border. 

Some House Republicans, such as Troy Nehls, have publicly said that they won’t vote to pass the bill if it makes it through the Senate because it would politically benefit President Biden in an election year.

“Never mind that you’ve been calling for HR. 2 this entire Congress,” Goldman continued, referring to a conservatively strict border bill House Republicans passed months ago. “No, now it’s ‘[Biden] can [protect the border] himself. Well he’s tried to do it himself! He’s tried. He’s passed numerous policies that would have streamlined the asylum process through ports of entry where migrants are vetted.”

“Republicans went to court to sue him, to stop him from implementing the policies to address the border,” Goldman continued. “So your own party is sabotaging and undermining this administration’s efforts to address the border while you are trying to impeach [Mayorkas] by saying that they’re not addressing the border.”

“The hypocrisy is the least of it,” Goldman concluded. “Your attack on the rule of law is the worst and our democracy is the worst of it.” 

Republican-sympathetic lawyers like Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz have publicly stated that House Republicans don’t have a legitimate basis to impeach Mayorkas, which would require proof of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” 

Instead, they argue, Republicans have a mere policy disagreement with the Biden administration.

Under President Biden, Homeland Security has arrested undocumented migrants and deported them at a higher rate than under the Trump administration.

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