Arizona lawmaker calls on Mayorkas to resign

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) referred to as on Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign on Friday, warning that he’ll face Home investigations if he refuses. 

The border state lawmaker’s message comes days after Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised to launch investigations in subsequent 12 months’s Republican-controlled Home to find out whether or not Mayorkas must be impeached. 

“I’m glad that he has given Mayorkas an ultimatum: Both resign or we’re going to start out investigations and see if it results in impeachment,” Lesko mentioned on Fox Information, referencing McCarthy’s feedback from earlier this week. 

“I personally have signed on to laws to question Mayorkas. Previous to that, I signed on to laws that he resign, and I signed on to letters asking him to resign,” Lesko added. 

Lesko, a member of the Home Border Safety Caucus, went on to accuse the DHS chief of mendacity to Congress in regards to the state of affairs on the southern border. 

“We had written him a letter saying he ought to resign. And he retains on mendacity: He retains on telling us that the border is safe,” Lesko mentioned. “He mentioned that once more the opposite day in a Home listening to. And it’s not safe. Anyone is aware of that. Even the unlawful immigrants know that.”

Final week, Mayorkas instructed the Home Homeland Safety Committee that the border is safe and that DHS is “working day in and day trip to boost safety.” 

Two days later he admitted to the Senate Homeland Safety Committee that his company is “seeing a major problem on the southern border” and that “your complete hemisphere is struggling a migration disaster.”

Lesko joins a rising refrain of Republicans demanding Mayorkas’s resignation, vowing to carry him “accountable” for the disaster on the border if he doesn’t step down.

“We are going to use the facility of the purse and the facility of subpoena. Let me be clear, these chargeable for this catastrophe might be held accountable,” McCarthy mentioned on Tuesday throughout a go to to the Texas-Mexico border.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who is about to guide the Home Judiciary Committee subsequent 12 months and would oversee impeachment proceedings in opposition to Mayorkas, in the event that they occurred, launched an announcement backing McCarthy’s menace. 

“Chief McCarthy is true. People deserve accountability for the unprecedented disaster on the southwest border. Republicans will maintain Secretary Mayorkas accountable for his failure to implement immigration regulation and safe the border by all means vital,” Jordan wrote.

The almost 2.4 million crossings on the southern border recorded over the 12 months ending Sept. 30 have been the best on report.