Jackie Calmes: Mayorkas isn't to blame for border mess. House Republicans should impeach themselves
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Feb 02, 2024
3 minutes
If governing amid the chaos of migrants crossing the southern border is an impeachable offense (it's not), then it's members of Congress, mostly Republicans, who deserve condemnation — not a Cabinet secretary.
They, along with since-departed lawmakers of recent decades, are the ones responsible for our dysfunctional immigration system: Congress has consistently failed to provide immigration officials with enough funding and legal power to stem, vet and process in an orderly way the increasing number of people yearning for opportunity in the United States. The border problem is not new, it's just .
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