House Homeland Security Committee Republicans issued on Wednesday a highly critical report into the conduct of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"On top of these failures to uphold the law and fulfill his oath of office, Mayorkas has willfully undermined the sacred foundation of our constitutional republic—the separation of powers. He has rejected his responsibility to enforce the laws passed by Congress, and he has refused to respect rulings by the federal judiciary," it finds.
The report says that it is not just a question of policy differences, and says that policies must have foundations"in the laws passed by Congress, and work to the benefit of the American people." The report levels dozens of accusations against the secretary, arguing that he abused humanitarian parole to expand it well beyond the"case by case" basis laid out in law, while ignoring court orders to re-implement Trump-era policies and of"flouting" requirements for detention of illegal immigrants.
"Mayorkas is required to remove illegal aliens, but under his leadership and policies, removals by ICE have hit historic lows, and the targets set by his department continue to drop," it says."He has even told ICE agents that an alien’s unlawful presence in the country is no longer sufficient grounds to remove them, despite the clear language of the law saying otherwise.
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