đź§µOK, Mayorkas's impeachment: 1st 5 charges are Mayorkas not complying with various detention mandates, even though Congress has not funded this mandate and it would be unconstitutional detain everyone without feeding them. Even sleep deprivation conditions are unconstitutional:
They say his enforcement priorities that are mandated by 6 U.S. Code § 202 are illegal and cite a 5th circuit decision from 2022 that was *reversed by the Supreme Court*.
Oh, and guess what? Mayorkas in his first 2 years was less likely to release migrants than Trump's DHS secretaries were in his last 2 years, despite a massive increase in the flow. Charging Mayorkas over this is comical. cato.org/blog/new-data-…
They erroneously claim that Biden is abusing his parole authority, and look at this, they cite another 5th circuit decision REVERSED by SCOTUS. Here's SCOTUS direct refutation of this claim
Mayorkas is also charged with using parole to let in too many *legally*. Congress granted Mayorkas the power to decide whether to grant parole, and it's been used at least 126 times just like this by people in his position. Absolute madness: cato.org/blog/126-parol…
That's IT for the "law violations". Then you have the weakest possible charges: vague expressions that the border is "secure" or "closed" are perjury? Come on... Border Patrol caught a higher % now than almost any year. Is it a LIE to say that's "secure"?
Mayorkas terminating Trump policies is now impeachable! Even though SCOTUS said that he can end those policies, so they are not "statutory duties." Oh, and ending a policy that was removing 33/day didn't cause the border crisis. Give me a break!
Mayorkas terminated contracts for Trump's entirely pointless wall that is cut through a dozen times every single day and imposes more costs on Border Patrol and has even helped smugglers, but that's impeachable b/c he went against Trump! cato.org/blog/border-wa…
Oh, and this is extra funny b/c it was Trump's DHS that illegally took money from the DOD to build the wall
AND now with the final charge, we've left the realm of reality: Mayorkas didn't even end the asylum cooperative agreements that were basically never used! Oops wrong secretary. I guess they'll have to go back and impeach Blinken too b/c sure, why not?
So we've got citations to overturned court cases. We've got actions that Mayorkas never took. We've got demands that he detain people unconstitutionally. They want him to block *legal* entries, so more people cross illegally. They had 3 years to pull this together!
Mayorkas has made many mistakes, but it is nothing like the slew of illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral actions taken during the 4 years of the Trump admin, which resulted in the total destruction of the immigration system. This case is a joke.
As I testified: "More than 30 times, courts found that the prior administration’s policies were implemented illegally, but the assault was so relentless that many changes were not stopped. Nearly every single area of immigration law had been shredded." cato.org/testimony/bide…
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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.
Every time you hear DHS say that anyone who objects to ICE's mass deportation campaign is pro-violent felons, understand that those violent convicts are less than 7% of its work for this year. It's misleading the public about what ICE actually does. cato.org/blog/65-people…
The number of noncriminals booked into ICE detention has more than doubled in recent weeks after Stephen Miller ordered them to deprioritize criminals and focus on arresting as many people as possible.
Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.
Adopting HR 1's flawed assumptions, mass deportations will likely account for 1/4 of the bill's total deficit. This is far more than many other hotly debated costs in the bill. Congressional Republicans didn't let the CBO account for deportations cato.org/blog/deportati…
Immigration/border policing already accounts for 2/3 of all federal law enforcement spending. 36 X IRS-Treasury, 21X ATF, 13X DEA, and 8X FBI. These are the most well-funded law enforcement agencies in America by far.
The immigration dictatorship just announced a ban on immigration for 12 nationalities with 7 more facing draconian discrimination as well. Horrible policies with no justification
Here are the 19 disfavored nationalities, which have produced many Americans of great character who have benefited our country enormously. In 1965, Congress attempted to rid American immigration law of this rank nonsensically national origins discrimination. It should again.
Trump uses a slight-of-hand saying he's restricting immigration "from" these places, but the proclamation does not restrict immigration "from" these PLACES but by persons who happen to be nationals of these countries. It's important for him to maintain this fiction...
Cato published my review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
When I started researching their methods of an entry, I thought finding 4 such cases would be an unbelievable crime and scandal. In the end, it’s apparent that at least four DOZEN were legal immigrants who came with advanced permission. cato.org/blog/50-venezu…
We identified 2 dozen parolees who entered at ports of entry, another 21 came legally with a CBP One appointment and were immediately detained, 4 refugees who the government determined faced persecution abroad, and one person who entered with a tourist visa.
🚨Your US government has kidnapped this child. Not family separation. Kidnapping. It took a 2-year-old child from her parents, deported the mom to Venezuela, and have imprisoned the dad in a Salvadoran torture prison without charge or trial. Every day, new evil level reached
THEY ARE INVENTING CONVICTIONS. The White House says the father was convicted of prostitution offenses but it's impossible: he was never even inside the US. Criminal checks reveal no such crimes in both the US and Venezuela. The mom isn't even alleged to have convictions
What explains Trump's immigration agenda? It's not about legal immigration. He is the most anti-legal immigrant president ever. He is stripping legal immigrants of their status, arresting them, detaining them and deporting them.... It's also not about...
citizenship or nationality. He wants to strip citizenship and nationality from Americans, and he wants to foreclose citizens' rights to associate with immigrants. He wants to be able to intentionally arrest and deport citizens....
So what's it about? It's about limiting the rights of people in the US to as small a group of people as possible. Why? Because fewer rights mean more power for him to control the economy and society and manipulate people into following his commands.