{"id":771,"date":"2024-01-13T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=771"},"modified":"2024-01-17T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:37:27","slug":"politic_detail_2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=771","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS_DETAIL_2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">POLITICS<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>JANUARY 10, 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Republicans Are Grasping for a Reason to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou cannot impeach a cabinet secretary because you don\u2019t like the president\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DiasIsabela_900px_2023.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-783 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>ISABELA DIAS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Reporter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240110_Zuma_Mayorkas.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" style=\"width:780px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240110_Zuma_Mayorkas.webp 990w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240110_Zuma_Mayorkas-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240110_Zuma_Mayorkas-768x431.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.<strong>Annabelle Gordon\/CNP\/ZUMA<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, House Republicans renewed their plan to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It is part of a long attempt to pin the failures\u2014both real and imagined\u2014of the immigration system in the United States on supposed Democratic incompetence by warring against Mayorkas. And it would be an extraordinary step. No cabinet secretary has been impeached in 150 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a formal impeachment hearing against the first Latino and immigrant to lead DHS, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) called Mayorkas the \u201carchitect of the devastation\u201d at the southern border, in reference to record numbers of people come to the United States. Green said root causes of migration like push factors in countries of origin, climate change, and a broken immigration system were just excuses. He instead blamed Mayorkas for the \u201cunprecedented crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Almost since the moment Mayorkas, a career public servant with extensive experience as a federal prosecutor and head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), began the job as head of DHS, Republicans have made him a target. They say that Mayorkas has willfully violated his oath of office by refusing to do his job of securing the border. Republicans claim Mayorkas has abused his office\u2019s authority when using a discretionary parole program to allow certain groups to lawfully enter the country and has lied to Congress about having \u201coperational control\u201d of the border\u2014an impossible, congressionally defined standard that requires \u201cthe prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with previous congressional hearings and public attacks against the DHS secretary, the first official impeachment inquiry into Mayorkas once again exposed how legally weak Republicans\u2019 case is. \u201cThey are angry that this administration won\u2019t take babies from their moms or put kids in cages like the previous administration,\u201d Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said, adding the \u201cimpeachment sham\u201d wasn\u2019t about facts or the law, but about politics. \u201cYou cannot impeach a cabinet secretary because you don\u2019t like the president\u2019s policies,\u201d he continued. To emphasize that point, Thompson&nbsp;recalled&nbsp;how Rep. Green once&nbsp;told&nbsp;a room full of donors to \u201cget the popcorn\u2014Alejandro Mayorkas comes before our committee, and it\u2019s going to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the hearing, House Republicans scrambled to make a case to impeach Mayorkas, calling on the attorney generals of Missouri, Montana, and Oklahoma\u2014states interestingly not on the southern border\u2014to testify about drug cartels and the deadly impact of fentanyl smuggling. (Evidence&nbsp;has established that fentanyl comes primarily through ports of entry via US citizens and lawful permanent residents.) Green also evoked Mayorkas\u2019 vehement criticism of Customs and Border Enforcement (CBP) for the inhumane&nbsp;treatment&nbsp;of Haitian migrants at the border in 2021.&nbsp;The comments that made some border patrol offices mad at the time, but would hardly amount to gross misconduct or an impeachable offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was then incumbent on Frank Bowman, a University of Missouri law professor and author of&nbsp;<em>High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump<\/em>, to give House Republicans a brief lesson on what constitutes or not constitutional grounds for impeachment and how that extraordinary power should be deployed. \u201cIt is not supposed to be a routine tool to resolve ordinary public policy debates, even very passionate ones,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cIt is instead a measure of last resort reserved, as one framer put it, for great and dangerous offenses.\u201d Because impeachment wasn\u2019t intended to be the equivalent of a vote of no confidence in parliamentary systems, he explained, an impeachable conduct should meet \u201ca very high treshold of seriousness\u201d and be of a \u201ctype that corrupts or subverts the political and governmental process.\u201d There is no evidence that Mayorkas has committed treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeanors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several legal scholars&nbsp;agree, including some highly critical of the secretary. \u201cBeing bad at your job is not an impeachable offense,\u201d Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University legal scholar who has&nbsp;served&nbsp;as a GOP witness, said in an op-ed in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Beast<\/em>. \u201cEven really bad. Even Mayorkas\u2019 level of bad. If that were the case, he would be only the latest in a long line of cabinet officers frog-marched into Congress for constitutional termination.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans Are Grasping for a Reason to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas On Wednesday, House Republicans renewed their plan to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It is part of a long attempt to pin the failures\u2014both real and imagined\u2014of the immigration system in the United States on supposed Democratic incompetence by warring&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=771\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLITICS_DETAIL_2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":436,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions\/871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}