Performance Issues. . .

(Performance Issues. . .)

Sometimes, relationships do not work out. A certain degree of performance is expected and when that expectation is not necessarily met, removal of that individual and the termination of the relationship. Homeland Security Secretary, Alajandro Mayorkas is being impeached by the GOP controlled House because he is being blamed for the situation at the border, despite the fact that Mayorkas is following deliberate Administration policy.


To be sure, this is no crusade for finding truth. Impeaching the Homeland Security Secretary is a gross political act from a Congress hostile to Mayorkas and, by extension, President Biden. Republicans point to the fentanyl deaths, the drugs and human trafficking. Another border policy is required but those are steps the Administration is not willing to take. And that is why Mayorkas is on the chopping block.


There is federal law governing the border that the Biden Administration has been ignoring. Their argument since the President was elected is that all the migrants will one day be good Democrats and will change the country in their favor. However, what of the possibility that Trump gets re-elected ? How many of these fresh and eventually Democrat voters will be deported ?


In the meantime, however, what the Senate is planning and what the House will accept are not compatible. HR-2 was the second piece of legislation and its focus was border security. That has been the starting position of the House and any so-called ameliorated version from the Senate is "dead on arrival" as said by Speaker Johnson. The only reason this conversation is taking place is that there is bi-partisan support for aid for Ukraine but not many enthusiasts for securing the border in the same manner.


For these reasons among others, Alajandro Mayorkas is in the process of being impeached because he, and the President, are not doing on the border things that House Republicans want them to do. It is an opportunity to embarrass the Administration. The point in Washington these days.

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