WH Criticizes GOP Efforts To Impeach Mayorkas

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS - JANUARY 08: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on January 08, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Mayorkas visited Texas border areas where large numbers of migrants had been crossing over the Rio Grande from Mexico just weeks before. The number has recently dropped dramatically, according to Mayorkas since the Mexican government ramped up enforcement actions, slowing many migrants from reaching the U.S. southern border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on January 08, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

OAN’s Rayana Unutoa
11:36 AM –Thursday, January 18, 2024

The White House has pushed back against Republicans efforts to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

In a memo released on Thursday, White House Oversight Spokesperson Ian Sams stated that the push to impeach Mayorkas is a “stunt” and shows blatant disregard for the constitution.

NEW MEMO >> The House GOP Mayorkas impeachment is unconstitutional, experts say
“Indefensible” with “no historical precedent.”
One conservative says it’s a “slippery slope that we would be wise to avoid.”
The latest example of blatant GOP disregard for the Constitution.
READ: pic.twitter.com/HK5h9BU6vo
— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) January 18, 2024

Sams also claimed that Mayorkas is actively working to find solutions to a problem he says congressional Republicans have spent years refusing to solve.

His comments came while the House Homeland Security was holding its second and final hearing on impeaching the secretary.

Representative Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, spoke at the meeting. He highlighted how Secretary Mayorkas refuses to enforce the law.

“As we learned in last week’s hearing, as many as 85% of illegal aliens are currently being released on Secretary Mayorkas’s watch,” he said. “The secretary himself admitted this during a trip to Eagle Pass just this week.”

The committee plans to vote on an impeachment resolution on January 31^st.

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