Grieving mother whose daughter, 26, overdosed on fentanyl slams Mayorkas for lacking ‘decency’ by skipping border hearing as Congress hears how woman, 20, was strangled by MS-13 member who crossed border illegally

Republicans strengthened the Republican Party’s plans to pass Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas by scheduling a committee vote on the resolution for later this month, as grieving mothers challenge his leadership of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The Homeland Security Committee will mark the resolution on January 31 and then bring it to the full House for a vote.

It comes as Democrats are labeling the impeachment effort as a “MAGA spectacle” and a “predetermined, pre-planned, partisan stunt,” as top Homeland Security Democrat Bennie Thompson put it during Mayorkas’ latest impeachment hearing.

The committee brought in two grieving mothers who had lost daughters: Tammy Nobles, whose daughter was murdered by an illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member, and Josephine Dunn, whose daughter died at age 26 after thinking it was oxycodone , but that was in reality. fentanyl.

Nobles told the story of her autistic daughter’s death in graphic detail.

“My only 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered in her own room and left like trash on the floor. The illegal MS-13 gang member brutally raped and murdered my daughter by strangling her with a cord and robbing her of six dollars.”

Nobles alleged that the Department of Homeland Security failed to check the El Salvador national for gang-related tattoos or check with the government of El Salvador to see if he was on a known gang list.

Josephine Dunn’s daughter died at 26 after thinking it was oxycodone, but it was actually fentanyl

The suspect is now in custody and charged with first-degree murder, rape and robbery.

Meanwhile, a teary-eyed Dunn attacked Mayorkas for not showing up at the hearing.

“I flew from Arizona to meet him, look at him and ask him why. And he’s not here today. I didn’t know until after I landed yesterday,” she said.

‘He now has no decency to even show up. That’s nonsense. And talk to you personally. Today is my daughter’s birthday. I would much rather have been at home while my poor husband mourned her. I didn’t have to be here today. So whatever he does, I hope it’s more important than that.”

Meanwhile, GOP Chairman Mark Green insisted Mayorkas had rejected testifying before the committee after filing a contempt resolution for the secretary yesterday.

Mayorkas was not subpoenaed to testify, but was invited. He was unable to attend because of a meeting with Mexican leaders about migration.

“Secretary Mayorkas has testified before Congress more than any other Cabinet secretary,” Thompson noted. “I wonder if the Republicans aren’t getting a little desperate.”

But more and more Republicans appear to agree with removing the Secretary of Homeland Security.

‘He violated his oath. He has betrayed the public trust,” Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during the hearing. “It’s a dereliction of duty of the grossest proportions I’ve seen in the 25 years I’ve been dealing with this border.”

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., took a stab at Senate-led negotiations on a deal that would include border security provisions, aid to Ukraine and Israel.

“This body should be discussing large-scale military aid to Texas, not Ukraine,” he said.

The Homeland Security Committee will draft the resolution to impeach Mayorkas on January 31 and then submit it to the full House for a vote.

A U.S. National Guard soldier stands on a shipping container as a group of migrants attempt to pass through a concertina wire fence on the banks of the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., January 17

Grieving mothers blamed Mayorkas’ DHS for their daughters’ deaths

Kayla Hamilton, 20, of Aberdeen, Maryland, was allegedly raped and murdered by a suspected MS-13 gang member, who had previously been arrested at the border as an unaccompanied minor

Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee said Republicans had brought the grieving mothers to Capitol Hill “under the false pretense that impeaching mayors would in any way prevent what happened to their children from happening to anyone else’s.” .’

Impeaching Mayorkas “may not be the solution they are looking for,” she said.

Meanwhile, witness Deborah Pearlstein, professor of law and public affairs at Princeton, argued against removing the secretary.

“Policy differences could be addressed through elections,” Pearlstein said. “Impeachment would be, and has been, a last-ditch effort to address crimes against constitutional democracy by a single individual that cannot be adequately addressed through normal channels.”

Meanwhile, a group of 26 former national security officials, including those who served in DHS under Trump, signed a letter earlier this week emphasizing that impeaching Mayorkas would be a “serious mistake.”

“Initiating such proceedings not only threatens to undermine national security, but also sets a dangerous precedent that could have serious consequences for the stability of our government,” they wrote.

“Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas would only distract from the urgent need to implement effective policy solutions to fix our immigration system and strengthen America’s national security.”