Last week, Rep. Andy Biggs announced his intent to file articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the coming weeks. Biggs has been a vocal opponent on the direction Mayorkas has taken with immigration and border policy. In February, Biggs and other congressmen sent a letter to Mayorkas, urging him to continue to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress, resume construction of the border wall system, and continue the Migrant Protection Protocols and the Asylum Cooperative Agreements.
Biggs stated, “Secretary Mayorkas is a threat to the sovereignty and security of our nation. As a result of his actions and policies, America is more in danger today than when he began serving as Secretary. He is willfully refusing to maintain operational control of the border and is encouraging aliens to enter our country illegally. Under his direction, DHS is systematically releasing COVID-19 positive aliens into our communities, subjecting the American people to unnecessary and avoidable risks. Secretary Mayorkas is failing to faithfully uphold his oath of office and is presiding over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement, at the expense of the U.S. Constitution and the security of the United States.”
Mayorkas is on his second stint at the department. He was head of the legal immigration agency, then deputy secretary at Homeland Security under the Obama Administration.
