Defund Mayorkas

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has struck again in his guerrilla campaign to obliterate lawfully established U.S. immigration quotas. On January 5, the White House announced it would immediately begin accepting up to 30,000 new immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, per month, from each of these four countries.

Media focus on the future of Title 42, while important, has served to obfuscate President Joe Biden’s latest border security flimflam in which the administration claims it is protecting our frontiers by diverting illegal migrants into Mayorkas’s new “orderly and lawful pathways” to reach the United States. The reality is these pathways are neither orderly nor lawful.

Congress must fight back. The Biden administration must live within existing immigration law, asking Congress for new visa categories or higher refugee numbers—if needed. Many in the House’s Republican majority have advocated a move to impeach Secretary Mayorkas for failing to protect the border and other neglected constitutional duties. To that list should be added Mayorkas’s failure to enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act, specifically his skullduggery in the use of humanitarian parole authority provided in Section 212(d)(5)(A) of that law.