10/06/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/06/2022 11:49
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling out his failure to enforce immigration law and address the drug and human trafficking crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border as "a gross dereliction of duty and a violation of your oath of office." They note, "This is gross dereliction of duty and, if not corrected swiftly, could provide grounds for impeachment."
The senators wrote:
"Your failure to faithfully enforce this nation's immigration laws and willful blindness to the very real humanitarian crisis at our southern border amounts to a gross dereliction of duty and a violation of your oath of office. Historically high levels of illegal immigration and illicit drug trafficking demonstrate that our southern border is open for every kind of public health and national security threat imaginable. Despite the heroic efforts by the men and women of Border Patrol, who operate with very little support from Washington, D.C., you have failed to achieve any semblance of operational control of the southern border. We have grave concerns about what this failure means for both national security and the health and safety of American citizens. These failures cannot go unaddressed, and your actions cannot be unaccounted for. The American people deserve better."
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"Far from taking steps to address this crisis and secure the southern border, you have allowed the situation to worsen and pursued policies that have greatly exacerbated the problem while continuing to insist that 'the border is secure.' This is gross dereliction of duty and, if not corrected swiftly, could provide grounds for impeachment."
The senators note the shocking statistics that are occurring under Secretary Mayorkas:
Read the full letter here.
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