The impeachment articles of Alejandro Mayorkas are now out, dropped by Sen. Clay Higgins.
It’s an easy political move for the House leadership and GOP majority to move them forward. Mayorkas is a disaster; everybody knows it.
Higgins, Mayorkas’ Adversary
Clay Higgins, I’m proud to say, is a personal friend of mine.
You probably know who Clay is. He’s a member of Congress, and he’s also a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Clay represents Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District, which more or less is the southwestern part of the state containing the cities of Lafayette and Lake Charles and their environs. He actually has a great story — Higgins was a reasonably successful sales pro in the auto industry who had a mid-life epiphany and decided to devote his life to public service, first getting a job as a sheriff’s deputy and then ending up as a viral sensation for making Crime Stoppers videos, which earned him the moniker of the “Cajun John Wayne.”
And, in 2016, Clay ran for Congress. At first, nobody took him seriously. They thought he was a sideshow — Scott Angelle, a career politician who’d been a Democrat until it wasn’t convenient to be one anymore, was the overwhelming favorite in that race. But Angelle had spent the previous year trashing the leading Republican candidate for governor, then-Sen. David Vitter, with personal attacks, and contributed to weakening Vitter in the runoff against the Democrat John Bel Edwards, who won and has since utterly destroyed the state’s economic competitiveness.
And that was irksome to the heavily conservative voters of District 3. So, Angelle underperformed badly in the primary, and when he unloaded a truckload of personal dirt on Higgins in the runoff, the reaction was precisely the opposite of what he expected. Higgins won big, and he’s been one of Louisiana’s most popular politicians ever since — for very good reasons.
Clay’s not particularly polished, and he’s definitely not positioned for prime-time TV — unlike, for example, the handsomely coiffed and never-ratioed Adam Kinzinger. Higgins is a salt-of-the-earth guy and a real man, someone who’s been in life-threatening situations as a cop and so isn’t easily fazed. He’s also somebody who’s very comfortable calling out and taking on an entrenched, powerful, and unsavory power elite.
You get what you see with Clay, which is a very refreshing thing in a member of Congress.
As such, Clay Higgins has a very low tolerance for the kind of abject bovine scatology commonly peddled by the far more urbane, soft-spoken, and utterly shameless liar Alejandro Mayorkas, who “serves” as Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security chief.
Mayorkas’ Lies on the Border
Mayorkas routinely heads to Congress to testify about our barely existent southern border, across which some 5 million illegal migrants since 2021 have staged a literal invasion, bringing with them a level of misery, lawlessness, and danger to which no Americans have been subjected since Pancho Villa and his men burned Columbus, New Mexico, to the ground a century ago. And Mayorkas routinely emits the noxious lie that the border is “secure.”
It never goes well.
Sen. John Kennedy, who, like Higgins, hails from Louisiana, had a reasonably typical reaction to Mayorkas’ mendacity and evasiveness in a recent hearing:
Of course, Kennedy is a consummate Southern gentleman, even despite his obvious distaste for the secretary’s untruthful way. With Higgins, it’s a bit more visceral:
That was a month ago. On Wednesday, the hammer dropped:
Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) introduced articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his failure to secure the southern border, dereliction of duty, and wanton disregard for his Constitutional oath.
The two articles span fifteen pages, judiciously outlining Secretary Mayorkas’ deliberate actions to transition DHS away from actual enforcement of law, disintegrate the operational control of our southern border and cede U.S. sovereignty to criminal cartels. Further, the articles clearly document Secretary Mayorkas’ abuse of Title 8 authority, which resulted in the unlawful release of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States interior.
“The Founders intended that impeachment of a senior executive should require clear evidence of intentional, repeated unconstitutional or illegal actions that bring measurable injury to our Republic,” said Congressman Higgins. “Secretary Mayorkas has long ago crossed that threshold. His arrogant disregard for the security and sanctity of the American people has been shocking to behold. I think that in my 62 years, I’ve never met a more pompous, insidious man. I prepared the foundational posit of these articles long ago, yet I’ve been prayerful that impeachment might not be required. I’ve given him fair warning to resign his position. Now, he shall reap what he hath sown.”
When the failed southern border produces a mayor of New York asking for volunteers among the public of his city to house the trickle of illegals being sent there from an overwhelmed Texas, Mayorkas’ dereliction isn’t just a red-state meme anymore. This is undeniable.
Mayorkas Won’t Be Thrown to the Wolves
The thing is, it’s starting not to be cute anymore in blue America. When black residents of Chicago’s South Side are throwing fits over the Hispanic invasion of their part of town, thanks to another trickle of illegals making their way to the Windy City, things start to get complicated.
This is not to say that you’ll see Democrats in Congress hopping aboard the Mayorkas impeachment train. You won’t. But impeachment proceedings against him are a little like the space program in that they could spit out a smorgasbord of fun side effects nobody even figured on when things got started.
Who’s to say Mayorkas won’t ultimately decide that the legal expenses of defending himself against the impeachment are too onerous to continue? Now that the impeachment bill is out, his resignation is a scalp that Higgins and his fellow House GOP colleagues can claim, should it happen.
What if Mayorkas decides he’s not going to eat a bullet for Biden on the border failure? It’s no particular defense of the secretary to note the obvious — that the effective elimination of our southern border is a strategic political move to overwhelm our social infrastructure and culture and create the kind of Cloward–Piven effect that leads to a revolution.
Or, at minimum, it will serve to create a vast, permanent unskilled underclass in American society that is easily manipulated into voting for the Democrat Party forever. Democrats used to tout this openly; they wrote books and articles gleefully predicting the “browning” of America and the permanent Democrat majority it would usher in. It was only when conservatives like Tucker Carlson actually read those books and articles and repeated what was in them in a bit of a different light that this was suddenly a White Supremacist Lie.
Nobody was fooled by any of that gaslighting. Nobody is fooled by Mayorkas, and nobody is fooled by Biden pretending not to be the source of the destructive border policies we’ve had since the day of his inauguration. But an impeachment trial might bring to light the entire picture of just how ugly the Biden White House has been on the border issue.
Mayorkas’ Impeachment Will Bear Fruit
If nothing else, a Mayorkas impeachment, should it make its way to the Senate, would smoke out just how awful the Democrats in that body are. Do you think Joe Manchin could survive the 2024 election without a vote to impeach Mayorkas? Could Kyrsten Sinema? Assuming Arizona conducts a real election next year, that is. Could Sherrod Brown survive it?
Realistically, none of them will have to make that vote because Chuck Schumer won’t even take up the proceedings. That in itself bears some political cost that the Democrats can’t afford to pay, given their shriveled majority in the Senate and the 24 (of 34) seats up for reelection next year currently in their hands.
So yeah — Mayorkas’ impeachment is warranted, it’s a good political move, it represents the kind of governmental hygiene America needs, and it’s reasonably likely to bear some sort of fruit.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who could use a bit of redemption among the party’s base after the lackluster “turd sandwich” of a debt-limit deal that he negotiated last month (it might have been the best deal he could get; as I’ve written, I’m not as infuriated by it as I thought I’d be) — would do well to take up Higgins’ impeachment articles and set loose the dogs of political war on Mayorkas.
Frankly, this should be only one of many impeachments. My advice would be to impeach the entire Biden cabinet and spend the rest of this year dismantling the administration by putting its principals under the knife, forcing them to incur legal expenses, and pressuring them to turn on the occupant of the White House. Because all of them — Merrick Garland, Pete Buttigieg, Jennifer Granholm, Lloyd Austin, Jake Sullivan, Samantha Power, Antony Blinken, and on down — are impeachable based on the incontrovertible record of failure they’ve amassed in less than three years.
Begin with Mayorkas. Don’t end there. We should have Impeachment Season on Capitol Hill and see where it goes. Kudos to Higgins for kicking things off.
via madpatriotnews