In anticipation of regaining a congressional majority after the 2022 midterm elections, Republican Party leaders are drafting the game plan to help them achieve their goal.
Not surprisingly, since his inauguration, the immigration actions by President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sit atop the checklist of items that Republicans consider ripest for criticism.
A 60-page guidance memo drafted by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and posted on his Twitter page emphasizes Democrats’ immigration vulnerabilities, especially the sieve-like open border that’s certain to worsen when Title 42 is removed.
Mayorkas admits that “significant challenges” will arise once Title 42 is lifted. But he insists that his Homeland Security Department is ready to meet the inevitable illegal immigration spike that he created.
Speaking at a Panama City ministerial conference on migration and protection, and accompanied by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Mayorkas’ comments are best summarized as happy talk with destructive undertones that will irreversibly harm the United States.
At no time did Mayorkas speak with credibility about ending the illegal immigration surge through stronger border and interior security, or stepped-up deportation.
Instead, he identified his solution to the immigration challenges he correctly foresees as inevitable to include building “legal, orderly and humane pathways so individuals do not need to place their lives, their well-beings, the well-beings of their loved ones in the hands of smugglers and traffickers who only seek to exploit them for profit.”
Blinken doubled down on Mayorkas’ so-called solution with nation-busting ideas of his own on how to manage, not end, migration.
“Here in Panama, we (the 22 nations represented) talked about some of the most urgent aspects of this issue, including helping stabilize and strengthen communities that are hosting migrants and refugees; creating more legal pathways to reinforce safe, orderly, and humane migration,” he said.
Blinken added — speaking for himself and his craven administration but not for U.S. voters — that finding a solution to illegal immigration is a U.S. “priority.” Translation: More immigration that U.S. taxpayers oppose but will fund as they watch, helpless and voiceless, in the nation’s destruction.
The total disregard for immigration law that Biden, Mayorkas, Blinken, Vice President Kamala Harris and others too numerous to mention have demonstrated over the last 15 months raises the point that, given open borders, DHS is pointless and should be dismantled.
The department’s $52.2 billion budget is a waste, and too many of its 240,000 employees, starting at the top, have as their mission America’s subversion.
Enacted after 9/11 to protect the nation, DHS and the programs that it spawned — the Transportation Security Administration, the Visa Security Program, the terrorist screening database and the no-fly list — are meaningless when unidentified foreign nationals can walk at will across the Southern border, surrender to immigration agents and then be transported across the country secure in the knowledge that they’ll never be removed.
Based on camera traffic, drone traffic and sensor traffic that the Border Patrol records but that the Biden administration prohibits responding to, in March, 67,000 gotaways entered the United States, which brings Biden’s post-inauguration total to about 700,000. The Homeland Security Department doesn’t know and could not care less where the gotaways are or what their intentions may be.
Capitol Hill scuttlebutt is gaining steam that should the Republicans prevail in November, a Mayorkas impeachment might be the party’s first matter of business. Given his disregard for immigration law and public safety, an impeachment case against him is mandatory if sovereign American is to be saved.
— Joe Guzzardi is an analyst and researcher with Progressives for Immigration Reform who now lives in Pittsburgh. He can be reached at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org and joeguzzardi.substack.com, or follow him on Twitter: @joeguzzardi19. Click here to read previous columns. The opinions expressed are his own.