Mayorkas’ impeachment is NEXT, top Republicans warn

Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said now that the House of Representatives GOP has passed its sweeping party immigration bill, it will look into possible impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The Tennessee Republican said he had a “five-stage plan” for accountability.

“We’re going to take a step-by-step look at things like laws that have been broken and ignored — you know, the human cost of the border crisis, the financial cost of the border crisis,” he told DailyMail.com.

“We’re just going to put it all together and if it looks like it warrants an impeachment, we’ll hand it over to Jim Jordan,” Green added, referring to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

He said his committee is currently scheduling hearings to collect evidence.

The impeachment case would be the next frontier in one of Republicans’ central rallying cry during the 2022 midterm elections — which targeted the border along with crime and inflation.

A majority in the House would have to vote to impeach Mayorkas, then a trial would take place in the Senate, and two-thirds of the Senate would have to do the same to remove him from office.

Green made the remarks just after the House passed HR 2, an immigration and border security bill that will be dead on arrival in the Senate. Still, House Republicans can tout a fulfilled campaign promise the day Title 42 expires.

Without the pandemic-era public health rule authorizing immediate evictions, border officials expect a deluge of migrants attempting to cross. It remains to be seen how big is the horde of border crossings waiting in Mexico to enter the US, although some estimates say 150,000.

Border Police Chief Raul Ortiz said he believes this figure is drastically exaggerated.

“I track between 60,000 and 65,000,” he said said.

Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a former chairman of the Homeland Security Service, also attacked Mayorkas at the press conference following the passage of the House bill, finding him “guilty of child abuse.”

He was referring to the New York Times report that migrant children were released to sponsors who had not been properly vetted, but as that report notes, it is the Department of Health and Human Services that does the vetting.

Still other Republicans followed suit by demanding that Mayorkas be impeached for the roughly 5 million border detentions since President Biden took office.

Migrants gather between the primary and secondary fences of the US-Mexico border before the lifting of Title 42 as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, May 11

CBP agents talk to migrants standing between the primary and secondary fences of the US-Mexico border before the lifting of Title 42, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, May 11

Immigrants sort used clothes and blankets into dumpsters before being processed to file asylum claims at a makeshift migrant camp on May 11, 2023 in El Paso, Texas

“I think it’s our responsibility to get rid of the secretary,” Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson, vice chairman of the GOP conference, told DailyMail.com.

“I am absolutely in favor of impeachment,” added R-Tenn representative Tim Burchett. added, “I think he’s a disgrace to the office.”

Mayorkas, however, blamed Congress for the current border chaos.

“I cannot stress enough that our current situation is the result of Congress allowing a broken, antiquated immigration system to exist for more than two decades,” the secretary said.

But House Republicans take no responsibility as they tout a party-line victory that won’t come through a Democrat-led Senate and certainly won’t survive a presidential veto.

“That’s a cheap shot from a guy who is an abject failure,” Representative Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told DailyMail.com. “Where did Mayorkas say this when the Democrats had the White House and both chambers of Congress?”