Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas intentionally “subverted the law passed by Congress.” Breitbart News Daily.
On Thursday, all 18 Republicans on the committee expressed support for Mayorkas' impeachment, saying, “We all, and the American people, believe that Congress must exercise its constitutional duty and impeach Mayorkas. It is undeniably clear that
The recommendations came after Green conducted a year-long investigation in about five stages “into border conduct.”
“And it's clear Secretary Mayorkas basically overturned the law passed by Congress,” Greene explained, calling it “intentional.”
“It's intentional. It's intentional. It's the executive branch that refuses to follow the law, that reverses the law, and you can't have a cabinet secretary who just ignores the equivalent government agencies. Completely ignored – and he also ignored the judiciary, which ignored a number of court orders that basically said: “What you're doing is against the law. Stop it.'' “We cannot have cabinet ministers who only choose what they want to do,'' he said, emphasizing that “we cannot have ministers who only choose what they want to do.''
“We write the laws because this is what the Constitution says. They enforce the laws as written. So we mark up articles of impeachment and bring them to the floor. “Hopefully they'll get it through committee. I'm confident they will. And we'll go to the floor and give everyone a chance to vote,” he said. Ta.
When confronted by critics who say Congress can't impeach someone who hasn't broken any laws, Greene offered a comprehensive explanation.
“Founders, obviously, we didn't have a code of law at that time. We didn't have a criminal law at that time, a very minimal criminal law…The best words of our founding fathers were, was actually in the House and they were creating the State Department, and I think what he said was — there were a lot of questions about why we're creating this department, we can, we've got bad leaders out there. It's possible — and Madison is basically saying that if there's a bad person at the head of this department who's doing bad things, and the director refuses to fire him, then the president is at fault, as the president says. If you refuse to remove that bad person from office, Congress has the power to impeach that person,” Greene explained.
“And then there's the court, Texas v. United States Supreme Court. In that court's decision, they said, “The state is not entitled to take a position here.'' Currently, they have not made a determination as to whether Mr. Mayorkas is lawless and in violation of the INA. They said, “There is no need to stand.” If that happens, the only recourse is impeachment. Therefore, the Supreme Court in its judgment, in both dissenting and concurring opinions, said that the only recourse for Cabinet secretaries who refuse to serve, refuse to follow the law and ignore the department . “And the equivalent other branch of government is impeachment,” he continued.
“I think that's why they ruled on it. The founding fathers were clear on this. It doesn't have to be a crime,” Greene explained, later adding, “I do this. I consider it my duty, and we are moving forward.”
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Green said he's also frustrated by the frustration with how long this is taking.
“The five steps were not only aimed at persuading the eight Republicans in the House of Representatives, but also to heighten outrage and educate the American public as we battle a media that doesn't care about the truth at all.” “There was,” he said. .
“They are an isolated organization that is telling the truth…but it is minimal. So this tsunami of misinformation needs to be confronted with the truth. And their ability to get information to the American people is limited. “It takes time in the current situation,” he said, explaining that he had planned it “very strategically… in five stages.”
“We issued a report at the end of each stage. We issued a final report in December. It's all about, one, what Americans are doing, and two, to the country. “It was intended to educate the American public about the effects of this,” he said. “So we've done our due process. No one can say that Greene, you know, did this on purpose and messed with the process.”
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