House panel approves Mayorkas impeachment articles

a reply to: nugget1

It's kind of weird you left this whole other part of your link out of the post.

Part of the cause has to do with the Trump administration's 2020 reforms to the country's immigration code under Title 42 of the U.S. health code, which allowed the administration to more quickly reject asylum-seeking migrants under the guise of protecting the public from diseases like COVID-19.While this helped the administration expand beyond the existing avenues allowed under Title 8—where immigrants are detained and assessed before they are admitted into the country—the Trump administration inadvertently created a veritable catch-and-release system that allowed migrants to make multiple attempts to enter the U.S. from the southern border.

As border crossing attempts spiked under the president, his efforts to lift Title 42 have been blocked by the courts, allowing the provision to continue to dominate modern immigration policy.

The fact this happened at the time the U.S. economy was booming may have played a part in the rise in immigrants arriving in the country. The number of U.S. job openings, an analysis by the libertarian Cato Institute found, almost directly correlates with the number of encounters at the southwestern border over the last several decades.

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: ColeYounger2

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Threadbarer

Dereliction of duty, but it's not a criminal case, it's an impeachment. If you need clarification on that just holler.

He should be impeached, removed, and then tried for treason.

yea, but with it taking 2/3 of the democratic majority senate, that won't happen. Border security is now a partisan issue. I sure don't know why, but it is.

I thought it was a plan to gain new voters, but that's only part of it....maybe.

I think utter chaos is the ultimate goal. Are they doing two things at once? Cloward-Piven and trying to pad the vote??

Doesn't make sense. Cloward-Piven will ultimately destroy every facet of our social contract in the US, so voting won't matter in the end anyway. No one is going to be following the law, LOL.

No, there's another purpose for these illegals and honestly, there's no way it can end well as it was PURPOSELY planned that way!

I'm just waiting to see what the "border deal" will be because there will be one. You see, we have to make deals to follow the laws..🙄smh...

The narrative is already being pitched that it too far gone and can only be managed now...

Just watch the theater play out....

originally posted by: underpass61

originally posted by: WiiDemBoyz
Whats the point? He won't be convicted by the Senate. Their time would be better spent passing legislation that would help alleviate the issues at the border.

FFS
DemPeople

Criminals may not have respect for the law, but you do actually expect officers of the law to respect the law, and they do all the arresting and/or releasing.

Simply legislating does not give the arresting officers the capability, or even the legal authority, to detain without limit everyone who attempts an undocumented border crossing - and there is law to prevent unaccompanied minors from being returned to their country of origin.

Not only that, but in order to be assessed as an asylum seeker, a refugee from another state, the person must be physically within US borders, this cannot be done at an embassy.

Also, crossing the US border without documentation does not criminalize people. This is specifically to allow for legitimate asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers are often escaping from situations where they are oppressed by crime and poverty.

While some who cross the border without documentation may be criminals, the majority are not and previous administrations have used misleading statistics which included those who have gone through legal process of entry into the country and are not illegal, or criminal, by even their definition.

a reply to: chr0naut

Did you watch the video in the OP?
Those asylum seekers were really attacking those cops.

So what?

It's dead in the Senate.

The next big waste of time and money for Republicans will be?

a reply to: ColeYounger2

Don't worry, those that are smiling ear to ear in support of this will be kicked squarely between the goal posts just like the rest of us....moreso even.

It's abysmally stupid to think you can take on god know who without assimilation or even a fkn short quiz and expect everything to just harmonize because "it feels good" or whatever tf.

The delusional are inevitably going to get a HEAVY dose of reality and I just wish I could be there for each and every one to see their faces as their unicorn gets turned on a spit.

Morons.

a reply to: Disgusted123

It'll just illustrate how morally bankrupt the democrats are in terms of the abuse, human sex trafficking flowing from the southern border.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: ColeYounger2

What crime did he commit?

It's called discernment. Look it up. Just because the fox committed no crime doesn't mean you put it in charge of the hen house. Seriously, how do you walk around all day lol

a reply to: frogs453

“The number of U.S. job openings, an analysis by the libertarian Cato Institute found, almost directly correlates with the number of encounters at the southwestern border over the last several decades.”

They blame the excellent Trump economy for the rise in illegals? LoL

Why was December 2023 the largest number of illegals invading EVER. Bidenflation?
Biden has the worst economic policies, maybe even worse than jimmy carter.
Do any of you know what a jimmy Carter tshirt is? Here’s a hint… they’re in every public restroom in America.
Cato institute needs to put the pipe down and step away from it.
They just can’t give credit where credit is due.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: WiiDemBoyz

There's already legislation to secure the border.

All they have to do is follow the law.

BINGO! And the House Bill passed this past May would strengthen it even further.

Lookie: www.nbcnews.com...

The bill being pushed now by the Senate and the news media, gives New York / Illinois / California BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to enable illegal aliens and legal aliens to live like Americans...or even better!

a reply to: Boogerpicker

The Constitution stipulates someone can only be impeached for committing a high crime or misdemeanor. But openly stating there's no crime you have admitted this is nothing but political theater with no Constitutional basis.

a reply to: Vermilion

Hey, that was Nuggets link used to support Trump, not mine, he just left out some stuff. Weird how you glossed over Trump's title 42, which is catch and release, just like Nugget did. And that removing it as the President has tried, was blocked by court. I mean if you provide a link, expect people to read it.

Ken Buck is a solid No on impeachment. All it takes is one more to join him and this impeachment won't ever make it out of the House.

“Since January 2023, Secretary Mayorkas has been engaging in a shell game at the expense of the American people by painting otherwise unlawful border crossings as legal entries. The Biden administration’s abuse of the CBP One app at ports of entry is just a new iteration of catch-and-release—and one that may only further empower cartels, who now have a new human smuggling tool at their disposal. Just one month after the termination of Title 42, it’s clear that Secretary Mayorkas never had a plan to secure our border or end this crisis; he just had a scheme to hide it in plain sight.”
homeland.house.gov...
I’ll take Fraud for 500 Alex.

originally posted by: ColeYounger2
a reply to: chr0naut

Did you watch the video in the OP?
Those asylum seekers were really attacking those cops.

Yes, I saw the video, and I also looked up the police reports and details from other sources, too.

Clearly, the Faux-News coverage was more than reportage. The video was replayed five times, while the anchor people gave narrative of things they could not possibly know. It was political propaganda, pure and simple, not news.

They had also cut the beginning and end off the video, so it looked like an unprovoked attack.

In comparing to the full video, and the context of what happened, there are also some inconsistencies in what the police said had happened.

The police said they were moving on an unruly crowd from the front of a migrant shelter. However, the full video shows them peacefully moving away at the request of the one of the officers.

Then the officer and the group go off-camera for less than a second, and then the video shows one of the officers wrestling one of the youth (the one in the yellow jacket) to the ground, after which other youths began to attack that officer, and the other officer then came to his partners aid.

In the first instance, the crowd do not appear on the video to be unruly when the officers first moved them on. Secondly, the pavement on West 42nd Street New York is a public street and they were migrants, outside of a migrant shelter, where they are likely to congregate.

Why were the officers moving them on? And what part of moving a crowd on, involves wrestling one of them to the ground?

It seems likely to me that The officers were exceeding their authority and 'making things hard' for a group of youths.

Then, possibly, one of the youths may have said something that the officer did not like, and that officer responded by grabbing that smart-mouthed youth and wrestling him to the ground.

The fact that the arrested youths were released may indicate that they were, in fact, improperly arrested, and up until the attack on one of them, they had done nothing against the law.

But Faux-News group would never go into the details behind a story that they can spin to fit their agenda. Take a look at their history of mis-reportage and all of those "Boom - Smoking Gun" type headlines that turned out to be actual nothingburgers. They don't do news, they are a flashy 24x7 propagandist opinion site, a tiny bit classier than InfoWars.

a reply to: Boomer1947

'" the Biden DHS is removing 3.5 times as many people per month as the Trump DHS did""

ahhhh yes, BUT that is PERCENTAGES...
actual numbers are much diffrent

during trump we might have only had 100,000 people per year crossing border
while under biden is OVER ONE MILLION (1,000,000)

so while trump arrested far less immigrants, 10x less crossed the border
during his time , so he didnt have to arrest as many

trump could arrest all 100,000 and still be far less percentage
as biden arresting 500,000 see,... biden arrested 500% MORE

They don't have the votes. Further consideration on the impeachment of Mayorkas has been postponed.

a reply to: Threadbarer

Johnson decided to go ahead with the vote. With Scalise out due to health reasons, the vote has ended up 215-215.

a reply to: Threadbarer

Final vote ends up being 214-216. The motion fails. Fox is reporting that Blake Moore switched his vote.