Mayorkas Skates By While Failing At His Job While House Republicans Impeached Trump For Doing His
Mayorkas Skates By While Failing At His Job While House Republicans Impeached Trump For Doing His
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- Proverbs 16:16 NASB95
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TODAY’S SUBSTACK:
MAYORKAS SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED, BUT THE ARTICLES NEEDED WORK
*footnotes can be found at the bottom of the post
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Left’s most-hated politician outside of Trump, introduced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, which were narrowly voted down, mainly by 7 Republicans who hail from blue states and one from Ohio. [1]
The reasons for impeachment, according to the document, are for “a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with the laws of the United States”. [2] Which is specifically outlined in Article II, where Greene attempts to make her case:
“In his willful admittance of border crossers, terrorists, human traffickers, drugs, and other contraband, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas has failed to maintain operational control of the border, thereby violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006.” [2]
side note: the Border Crisis is truly worse than you think. And no reporting has truly described the horrors that go on at the Southern Border except the book Crisis on the Border by Matt C. Pinsker. His book is a straight eyewitness account of what he witnessed, and did to secure, our border. In 2020 Trump deployed him along with other members of the military to our Southern Border. He was a special prosecutor for Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, and he tells it all. The gun-running, drug-running, human trafficking, Mexican Cartels, and more. It’s an important exposé into the reality of what is facing us at the Southern Border.
But this is where things get confusing for me, for a variety of reasons. But mainly one big one. He has arrested a record number of illegal entries and stopped a record number of fentanyl from coming across the border. Greene makes the second point in her impeachment articles. From official Border Patrol statistics, the DHS has arrested 15,267 criminals at the border as of October 21 of this year. This is a huge increase from 12,028 the previous year, and 10,763 from the year before that. [3]
Greene also said in her articles of impeachment that Border Patrol caught 280 terrorists and 73,000 “special interest aliens” from countries the United States deems a threat to national security. [2] So which is it, Greene? Is Mayorkas failing to do his job or isn’t he? Thus far, Greene has failed to make a solid case.
The only impeachable offenses I truly see in here are how 1.8 million illegal immigrants and 85,000 children were lost during encounters. That amounts to approximately 1 out of every 6 illegal immigrants and 1 out of every 5 children. After all, isn’t he supposed to prevent even one person from crossing the border illegally, let alone all 10 million?
If there ever was a solid argument for gross negligence and derelection of duty, it would be that. But Greene doesn’t really stick to her guns. She instead lists all the reasons Mayorkas did his job right, effectively making the case FOR Mayorkas.
She could have discussed how DHS partners with multiple “sponsors” who are just fronts for businesses that want child labor. Mayorkas was actually questioned for this before Congress. [4] However, it wasn’t mentioned at all in the impeachment documents.
It is actually perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the entire illegal immigration crisis. The DHS and DHHS simply hand off thousands of children to sponsors who force these children into child labor… and make a dollar off of the children in the process. If this isn’t on purpose, at minimum it is definitely gross negligence. This, I think, should have been mentioned.
To her credit, though, she did mention the vaporous catch-and-release policy that the Biden Administration re-initiated as one reason for impeachment, where, in FY 2022 alone, more than 8 out of 10 illegal immigrants were released into the United States after being caught. [5] That is definitely dereliction of duty, since it violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Her strongest arguments really came at the end, where she really exposed this guy’s horrible border policy. He ended the Remain-in-Mexico policy which Trump initiated that prevented catch-and-release. But she also claims he “unlawfully” granted categorical parole. This isn’t actually unlawful, as I understand it. The Executive Branch has what is called Prosecutorial Discretion, where they can choose which charges to bring on someone, and whom to charge, instead of being forced to dole out the charges on the books. While originally intended for plea bargains, Prosecutorial Discretion can be used for nearly any crime. So deciding to plea down or revise charges according to categories, while alarming, is not actually illegal. [6]
Plea bargains are useful to drug enforcement agencies because they give the chance to catch the “bigger fish” by getting the littler fish to cooperate. They are also useful in situations where a person broke the law on accident (Americans unknowingly break at least 3 laws a day just going about their daily business [7]).
While many could make a solid case that plea bargains and categorical enforcements do more harm than good, and there is a roaring debate over that aspect of Prosecutorial Discretion, I think it is bonkers to force the government to arrest every American citizen for laws they didn’t even know they broke. So Prosecutorial Discretion is a valuable tool indeed.
I could see how some in Congress could have voted down impeaching Mayorkas simply because they did not want to agree that Prosecutorial Discretion is wrong. It creates a dangerous precedent that can be used to destroy law and order without first scaling back the useless laws that don’t help public defense and safety.
Overall, Marjorie Taylor Greene made the right move, but with some of the wrong arguments. Mayorkas has definitely been a disaster over the Border, letting in 1 out of 7 illegal immigrants and catch-and-releasing hundreds of thousands of illegals into the country. But she didn’t help her case when she called Prosecutorial Discretion unlawful and then proceeded to list how he broke records seizing Fentanyl and stopped tens of thousands of crossers from countries of interest and hundreds of terrorists from coming in. She also should have mentioned the fact that thousands of children he caught ended up as child laborers.
I can see reasons people could have chosen not to impeach him and gotten away clean based on some of the things she put into her articles of impeachment.
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/update-us-house-votes-8-republicans-voting-democrats/
[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/683347329/Mayorkas-impeachment-resolution-11-9
[3] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-noncitizen-statistics
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[6] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/what-is-prosecutorial-discretion-.html
[7] https://mises.org/library/decriminalize-average-man
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