House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by a single vote
House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by a single vote
Republicans were waiting to see if they had enough members in D.C. to repeat their bid to impeach the Homeland Security secretary over his stewardship of the immigration system.
House Republicans moved in historic fashion and impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single vote on Tuesday night, succeeding on their second try in punishing the steward of President Biden’s immigration policy.
The unprecedented and partisan resolution — which cleared the House over opposition from Democrats and three GOP members — may not go very far in the Senate, as some Republicans in the upper chamber do not believe that Mayorkas’s actions clear the bar for the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary for conviction. But Mayorkas is the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached and some bipartisan and legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon.
Edit: updated summary and archive to reflect article changes.
Wow, what a victory. This was definitely a much better outcome than trying to create bipartisan border legislation. Or, like, I don't know, a budget?
We haven't had an actual budget that wasn't a continuing resolution since what? The 90s? I don't think any of them are even actually capable of governance anymore.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THEY DID THIS JUST DAYS AFTER THEY SCUTTLED THEIR OWN IMMIGRATION BILL !!!
🤡🤡🤡🙈🤡🤡🤡And just as they're preparing to refuse a vote on funding for Ukraine, all while citing a lack of immigration fixes in the bill. 🤡
Chuck Schumer should tell Moscow Mike that he'll hold a vote on Mayorkas if the House holds a vote on the foreign aid package. Then pull a Republican and renege.
House GOP shows that they're deeply unserious about governance, again, and half of the country will lap up their verbal diarrhea with the utmost joy.
More of a political theatre troupe than a political party
So....instead of debating and tweeking a ready-made bill that had everything they asked for, these schmucks kick the can down the road and bitch about their made for Fawx News crisis?
Worthless assholes. Get everyone you know to vote these fuckers out.
I wonder if the Senate will do the whole trial part and make the House GOP present what they think is evidence?
I hope not. I hope Shumer refuses to bring it up or dismisses it out of hand.
On the other hand, putting their complaints on record and pointing to the immigration bill that fixes all of them — the one that Johnson refuses to consider because it’s bipartisan and because Trump wants to campaign on a fictional “border crisis” — might be entertaining. And it might swing a few more votes.
I have a question, and I’m scared to just go look it up because of bias. Is there actually an influx of migrants at the border or is this just republicans riling up the masses again? I know for a fact that Trump did this during his presidency where the “caravan of migrants” was winding up Central America, but as soon as he had successfully deflected whatever else he was hiding from, suddenly there was no caravan to worry about.
You're gonna get a lot of different answers. The primary issue we're facing with the border right now is not so much an unprecedented wave as much as it is an overloaded asylum system. Due to how we handle claims and the lack of manpower, individuals who may eventually be denied asylum are living in the US (still unable to legally work, I believe. Someone might check me on that) for years awaiting a trial date. Republicans are tackling this issue by focusing on solutions to non-existent problems, or are tossing the issue out when it seems the outcome might benefit democrats (i.e. no border bill, because then Dems can rightfully run on progress with the border issue). Dems have kicked this particular can down the road for a bit, and recently made a good faith effort in the Senate to construct a bill that would have addressed the actual pressing issue (the degree it would help is debatable, but it was objectively progress). That bill was killed by republicans for the aforementioned political reasons.
I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration
“About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”
So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.
That includes countries other than South America:
“76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“
I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.
Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.
Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.
That Vox link said 300k in December 2023
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
There actually is a pretty unprecedented number of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers entering and trying to enter the country which has put a strain on border communities over the past couple of years.
There's no notable wave of immigrants. I would wager this is more about federal government getting in the way of Texas's illegal and dangerous grandstanding on the issue.
" legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon"
Dear legal observers: don't "worry," state the bloody obvious clearly. The House GOP has abused the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to carry out a purely partisan attack.
Sigh. Just when you think the GOP can’t embarrass themselves even more, someone shouts “Hold my beer!”
Okay, fine. Sure. Now impeach every single one of those cowardly mutherfuckers who voted against the border bill last week!
And Democrats! Stop standing so much on your principles and call these mutherfuckers out for this shit! Repeat it endlessly until it sinks into the public mindset!
That's more ominous than I'd prefer. They will make their own executive branch, entirely independent of American votes
Apprehensions are at an all time high and they are trying to say he is not doing enough...
ruh roh, a Democrat got impeached.
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Good! THAT'S what he gets for REJECTING a ONCE IN A LIFETIME BORDER DEAL!