Elected Republican officials on Wednesday called for the dismissal of US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas given the scale of the migration crisis on the border with Mexico.
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“We don’t control our border, it’s at the mercy of the drug cartels from Mexico,” Trump-elect official Andy Biggs condemned, believing Joe Biden’s minister had violated his “constitutional obligations.”
Surrounded by around fifteen MPs from the extreme right of the Republican Party, which again has a majority in the House of Representatives, he announced the initiation of impeachment proceedings.
This has little chance of succeeding since the Senate is controlled by Democrats who are firmly opposed to this move.
During a hearing on the migration crisis organized just hours earlier, several elected officials in the Biden administration had also accused of fueling the opiate crisis.
“Under Trump’s presidency, the border was secure,” said Jim Jordan, chairman-elect of the House Judiciary Committee. “There are no borders under Biden and Americans are paying the price,” he said.
The Democrats, meanwhile, accused the opposition of “intensifying the feeling of hatred and violence” by “demonizing migrant families”.