Cruz and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, sent a letter to Homeland Security...
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has warned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that his handling of the southern border could be “grounds for impeachment.”WASHINGTON — As GOP lawmakers continue to antagonize the Biden administration over its immigration policies, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that his handling of the southern border could be “grounds for impeachment.
Cruz, along with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, sent a letter to Mayorkas this week blasting him for “gross dereliction of duty” and citing record-high numbers of crossings at the southern border. “These astronomically high numbers are due in no small part to the political decision to rescind a number of President Trump’s policies that were stemming the flow of illegal aliens and illicit drugs across the southern border,” Cruz and Graham’s letter said.
The letter is not the first time Cruz has sparred with Mayorkas, who has been a consistent target of conservative ire over immigration. He repeatedly has floated the idea of impeaching Mayorkas on his podcast. The Republican senators also said Mayorkas was responsible for the worsening of the opioid epidemic as DHS has “ceded control of our southern border to the cartels.”Texas has put forward $4 billion to fund Operation Lone Star, which Gov.
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