DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be out of a job – but he isn’t.

As our readers will remember, Mayorkas was impeached by the House of Representatives back in February. Senate Democrats promptly dismissed the charges without a trial, disregarding all precedent and, by commission, taking on all responsibility for the failures of the southern border.

Meanwhile, more cases of innocent Americans being killed by illegal migrants keeps coming up in the news. The most recent and tragic of these cases is that of 12 year old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, where two illegals from Venezuela are now charged with capital murder, after allegedly raping and strangling this girl, then leaving her body in a creek. Both of the accused killers were caught and released by Border Patrol THIS YEAR. Donald Trump should be saying Jocelyn’s name repeatedly – along with Laken Riley‘s and Rachel Morin‘s – during tonight’s debate. The open southern border is costing the lives of innocent Americans, and the Biden administration simply doesn’t care. Alejandro Mayorkas surely doesn’t care, as he wants to blame “the criminal” for what happens when innocent people die on his watch.

Tone-deaf Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday shrugged off attempts to blame Biden’s border policy for the horrific slaughter of Americans at the hands of illegal migrants, saying, “The individual who is responsible for a heinous criminal act is the criminal.”

His comment during a press conference from a Border Patrol aircraft hangar in Tucson, Arizona — some 70 miles from the nearest border crossing — came in response to a question about 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was brutalized and murdered in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants who were released into the US earlier this year.

“We screen and vet individuals when we encounter them,” he said.

News flash, Mr. Secretary – you suck. And you’re a coward. And yes, these are Biden’s policies and he’s simply “following orders.” But he’s the one standing before the media trying to explain how a young girl was raped and murdered by two monsters who should never have been allowed in the country in the first place, or trying to explain how ISIS-linked illegals got into the country and how they can’t find FIFTY of them. And then the Biden administration has the nerve to put out boilerplate cut-and-paste statements that Joe Biden never saw.

The entire point of impeaching Mayorkas was to try and hold someone accountable for what has happened at the border. Since Senate Democrats are apparently fine with what is happening at the southern border, House Republicans, with an amendment by Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) defunding the office of the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The House just passed my amendment to defund the office of the DHS Secretary.

Alejandro Mayorkas—who was impeached earlier this year—doesn't deserve a single penny from American taxpayers.

— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) June 26, 2024

The House cleared an amendment — led by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — to the DHS appropriations bill for fiscal 2025 that would prevent funding allocated in the legislation from being used to pay Mayorkas’s salary.

The push to slash Mayorkas’s salary comes after the House voted to impeach the DHS secretary in February, making him the first Cabinet official to be penalized since the 1870s. The Senate then dismissed the pair of articles in April.

The vote on Biggs’s Mayorkas amendment was largely along party lines, 193-173, with 72 lawmakers not voting. Just one Republican — Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón — voted “no.”

Now, there is no practical effect on Mayorkas or his salary unless the Senate agrees to the appropriations bill – which they won’t.

The appropriations bill itself is expected to get a final vote on Friday, though it’s highly unlikely to be taken up by the Democrat-led Senate.

The White House has already threatened to veto the measure if it got to President Biden’s desk.

Also, notice that the appropriations bill is talking about fiscal year 2025. God and the American voters willing, Alejandro Mayorkas will be out of a job by then. So while Representative Biggs has the right idea, the vote is nothing more than a performative gesture – which, unfortunately, seems to be all the House Republicans are capable of doing right now.

I would dearly love it if Donald Trump got the chance during tonight’s debate to ask Joe Biden if he stands behind Alejandro Mayorkas and the job he has done. I’ll settle for him bringing up Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, or Jocelyn Nungaray and asking Joe Biden why they are no longer living. There’s a 50/50 chance at that point, Biden mentions how sad he was when Beau died, or invents some whopper about a family member who was killed by an illegal immigrant – wait, he would probably say “undocumented migrant” – in order to fake up some sympathy for himself. Biden is still faltering badly when it comes to immigration. If he truly wanted to make waves and give himself a boost, he’d fire Mayorkas himself. But of course, he’s not going to do that, because the open border was always a part of the Biden plan. Mayorkas is just the willing tool to get the job done.

Featured image: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas via US Dept of Homeland Security on Wikimedia Commons, cropped and modified, public domain