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Arizona lawmaker looks to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Arizona lawmaker seems to question Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
PHOENIX – An Arizona lawmaker is main the cost to question the Secretary of the Division of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas over points on the southern border.
Congressman Andy Biggs introduced on Feb. 1 that he’ll be submitting new articles of impeachment on Capitol Hill. That is the second time Biggs has tried this – it was unsuccessful in 2021 when Democrats managed the home – this time round, with Republican management, it might be totally different.
“I believe everybody understands fairly clearly that there’s a disaster on the southern border. A few of our buddies throughout the aisle are in, are in disagreement with that. Secretary Mayorkas doesn’t suppose the border is open,” he says.
Biggs is contemplating Mayorkas’ inaction on the southern border a dereliction of obligation and addressed new articles of impeachment towards the DHS Secretary.
“Let’s take a look at insurance policies. What had been the insurance policies that had been in place earlier than secretary Mayorkas got here? Construct the fence. End constructing the wall. He stopped that,” Biggs says.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels goes his jurisdiction to Capitol Hill to testify in entrance of the Home Judiciary Committee on what many in management at the moment are calling “a disaster on the border.”
“I spoke on behalf of sheriffs on this nation, however I additionally spoke on native legislation enforcement optics, what we’re seeing on the border,” Dannels mentioned.
The sheriff says it has been productive and helpful sharing views with these in our nation’s capital, two thousand miles away from the Arizona border.
“Hoping we carry actuality to what is going on on in a rural county like Cochise. You’ll be able to’t go away and say, ‘Oh, I did not know that. Now we have shared that, and I have been very clear with them about what we’re doing,” Dannels mentioned.
Elected officers weren’t the one ones lawmakers heard from.
“One of many witnesses at this time, a dad that misplaced his 15-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose. (He) talked in nice depth in regards to the medicine coming into the southwest border. Fentanyl being the headliner,” Dannels mentioned.
To this point, 15 members of Congress have gotten behind Biggs’ transfer towards impeachment. Mayorkas appears publicly unfazed by the efforts.
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