House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of “intentionally” enacting policies that led to the border crisis on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Johnson made the statement<\/a> in a lengthy interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” telling host Margaret Brennan that there must be “accountability.” Johnson led a delegation of GOP lawmakers to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas last week. He and his fellow Republicans have vowed to pursue impeachment against Mayorkas in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n Johnson listed the crises going on at the southern border, from massive crossings of single adult males to the sex trafficking of women and children.<\/p>\n “Anyone with a conscience who came down to see this would demand that it stop,” Johnson said.<\/a><\/p>\n BIDEN ADMIN EYES MORE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS TO VENEZUELA AS MIGRANT NUMBERS SHATTER RECORDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “But these are very, very real and immediate issues, what you’re talking about,” Brennan said. “It is a crisis, so don’t you need the help of the Homeland Security secretary instead of trying to impeach him?”<\/p>\n HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE SETS FIRST MAYORKAS IMPEACHMENT HEARING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Johnson laughed, responding, “We’ve been asking Secretary Mayorkas to do his job since he gained office, and he’s done exactly the opposite. He’s testified untruthfully before Congress repeatedly.”<\/p>\n “But why focus the congressional resources on going ahead with an impeachment when they could be dealing with the actual issues here on the ground?” Brennan asked.<\/p>\n ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POPULATION SOARS UNDER BIDEN: GOVERNMENT DATA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Johnson responded that the Homeland Security Committee has “methodically” investigated the border crisis and found that Mayorkas should be held accountable.<\/p>\n “I believe Secretary Mayorkas is an abject failure, but it’s not because of incompetence,” Johnson said. “I believe he has done this intentionally. I think these are intentional policy decisions that he has made, and I think there must be accountability for that.”<\/p>\n Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment, but they did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n U.S. Customs and Border Protection tracked a surge<\/a> of roughly 240,000 monthly illegal alien encounters per month at the border in late 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of “intentionally” enacting policies that led to the border crisis on Sunday. Johnson made the statement in a lengthy interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” telling host Margaret Brennan that there must be “accountability.” Johnson led a delegation of GOP lawmakers to visit the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}