Hours after a tense exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in which the Republican senator called Mayorkas’s performance “despicable,” Hawley said he thinks President Joe Biden’s Cabinet member should “be impeached.”
Mayorkas appeared at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Tuesday afternoon, where he was grilled about threats to the homeland, including illegal immigration at the southern border and DHS employees’ feelings toward Israel.
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Hours after the heated back and forth — principally focused on a DHS employee’s social media post celebrating Hamas — Hawley appeared on Hannity, where he lambasted the Homeland Security leader and sounded the alarm on how the Biden administration’s policies are putting American lives at risk.
“My view is, Sean, he needs to be impeached,” Hawley told host Sean Hannity of Mayorkas. “When you systematically disregard the laws of the country, when you systematically mislead the American people and lie and lie and lie to Congress and the American people, you’re not doing your job, and you should be removed.”
“He’s not going to resign, Joe Biden is not going to remove him; he is going to have to be removed by the House, and I think that proceeding should go forward. If ever there was a candidate for an impeachment inquiry, it would be Mayorkas,” the Missouri senator added.
Hawley and Hannity shared that they have no doubt there are illegal immigrants in the country with ties to terrorist groups “scheming another 9/11 or worse,” with Hawley adding that a record 169 people on the terrorist watch list were apprehended within the past year.
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“Our border is not secure, and it is an invitation to every terrorist out there to come across, come into this country,” the Republican lawmaker said. “They’re coming here because they don’t like us. … It’s open season, and this is a clear and present danger to the American people.”
Border Patrol observed but was unable to arrest more than 600,000 immigrants who illegally entered the United States over the past year, in addition to the 2 million people that agents were able to apprehend and arrest, Mayorkas said at the hearing on Tuesday.
