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 “We, the Attorneys General of 14 States, write to demand your
immediate resignation,” they wrote.
“Secretary Mayorkas has failed to deliver on the core function of the agency he
runs: ‘to secure the nation from the many threats we face,’” Moody said.
“Through his refusal to enforce federal laws, including deporting criminals and
maintaining order at the border, he has put America and our respective states on
the verge of a national security crisis. The only individuals who are more
secure because of our DHS secretary are the drug cartels and human smugglers.
Secretary Mayorkas should admit his failure to achieve the basic mission of this
agency and resign immediately.”
“Unlawful presence in the United States will alone not be a basis for an
immigration enforcement action but rather, we will allocate our efforts, we will
allocate our resources on those individuals who present a current public safety
threat, a threat to national security, or a threat to our border security, and
that is a very important principle.”
The fact that being in the U.S. illegally is a federal crime that DHS will no
longer enforce, is a dereliction of duty, those who’ve called on him to resign
and be impeached argue, including U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, and Texas
Congressmen Chip Roy and Michael Cloud, among others.
As each of the attorneys general have been combating escalating crimes related
to illegal immigration and have seen a wave of illicit drugs pour into their
states, they point to Mayorkas’ failed leadership as a contributing factor.
“From the time you took office to December 2021,” they wrote, “U.S. Customs and
Border Protection seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in
our country six times over – an increase of more than 30 percent since before
you took office. If that much was detected and seized, we shudder to think how
much more is slipping through each day … Any competent leader facing such
disastrous results would quickly alter their policies to abate the extraordinary
harm … Yet you continue undeterred, oblivious … to the destruction and deaths
you are causing in American communities.”
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Since he’s been in office, “…the number of sex
offenders arrested entering our country increased by an astounding
213 percent over the last fiscal year. Given your unlawful catch and
release policies, we are left with many other unanswerable
questions, like how many children are now being trafficked in our
communities and how many sex offenders now prowl our streets.”
Last year, Customs and Border Protection continued
to report on repeat sex offenders re-entering the U.S. illegally.
From November 2020 to August 2021, border patrol agents arrested
8,691 known criminals who entered the U.S. illegally. Combined, they
committed 12,685 crimes in the U.S.
Border Patrol agents estimate these numbers only represent a
fraction of those coming through who they don’t catch.
The Del Rio sector alone reported a 1,400% surge in the number of
sex offenders its agents apprehended.
“That more criminals are entering our country is, of course, a
natural consequence of your refusal to enforce the law,” they wrote.
“Deportations have fallen a staggering 70 percent since 2020.
Perhaps most egregiously, you have refused to deport some of the
most dangerous criminals, even though you are required by law to do
so. That decision is shocking, especially because Democrats and
Republicans alike have always prioritized the removal of criminals
here illegally, including when you were Deputy Secretary of DHS from
2013-2016.”
Mayorkas and President Joe Biden have maintained that their approach
is more humane than the previous administration’s as they continue
to reverse policies it had put in place.
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