On April 10, Senators may be sworn in as jury, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will receive the prosecution documents.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y. ) has been informed of the upcoming hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ‘ impeachment, including when the Senate’s impeachment officers may provide the articles of impeachment.
Please be informed that Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray did preside as jury in the test the day after the articles are presented, Mr. Schumer wrote, while reminding his other Democrat lawmakers that their appearance next week “is essential.”
Since President Joe Biden took office, it is estimated that more than 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border.
President Biden and members of his administration have defended their border actions, blaming the issue on a “broken immigration system,” crime and corruption in illegal immigrants ‘ home countries, and even climate change.
Mr. Mayorkas is the subject of two articles of impeachment: the first one accuses him of “willful and structural refusal to comply with the law,” and the subsequent accuses him of “breach of public trust.”
The Democrat- managed Senate is commonly expected to reject Mr. Mayorkas’s impeachment trial.
Background
Republicans have blamed Biden presidency policies for fueling the frontier crisis while calling for measures like as ending the Biden administration’s contested” catch- and- release” policy, expanding expedited removals, renewing border wall construction, and reinstating the Trump- era” Live in Mexico” policy.
This number has soared from 4.7 million in 2022 to 6.2 million in 2023—a jump of over 30 percent. By comparison, the number of illegal immigrants on the non- detained rolls was 3.26 million in 2020 and 3.6 million in 2021.
A group of Republicans from the Department of Homeland Security wrote to Mr. Mayorkas on April 3 to express their concerns about DHS’s current procedures for obtaining and releasing known or suspected terrorists into the country.
A constant stream of cases involving aliens suspected of being on the terrorists watchlist being detained at the border or found in the interior are reported in recent weeks, they wrote.
They cited a recent, well-known case in which a person on the FBI’s terror watchlist was mistakenly released into the country after being unscreened during a first screening. After being free to roam for almost a year, a subsequent re-screening revealed the person as a “terrorist member of al-Shabaab,” leading to his arrest by ICE.
President Trump has made border security a key part of his 2024 presidential campaign platform, promising to undo President Biden’s “open border” policies on day one of his administration, if elected.