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On the recordFebruary 14, 2024
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas followed a yearlong investigation into his failure to enforce the law and keep Americans safe. Even as the border crisis has grown worse each month, with more than 300,000 illegal immigrants entering our Nation in December alone, Secretary Mayorkas has done nothing to secure our points of entry. These crossings represent a failure of President Biden's catch and release program that has allowed illegal immigrants to live in the United States for up to a year before even receiving an immigration hearing. Instead of utilizing the remain in Mexico policies that have proven effective, the Biden administration has opened our doors and opened our border, effectively making every State a border State and every city a border city. We cannot afford to wait any longer. It is time to resume construction of a border wall. It is time to give Border Patrol agents the tools they need. It is time to, once again, secure our southern border. This impeachment was a vote for law and order in our communities and a vote to restore the rule of law at our southern border. This vote was the constitutional duty of every Member of Congress to impeach a member of the cabinet who has failed to uphold his constitutional obligation. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for holding this Special Order tonight.
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John Joyce
Republican · Pennsylvania

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