Fitzgerald Statement on Voting to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement after voting to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The final roll call on the measure was 214 yeas and 216 nays. 

“Secretary Mayorkas has completely breached public trust. You need not look any further than his flip-flopping under oath at Congressional hearings about the operational control of the border. While he insisted that he did have operational control over the border, he quickly changed tune and admitted to me under oath that the opposite was true,” said Rep. Fitzgerald. “His failure to act lead to today’s vote. This vote was not taken hastily but follows a nearly year-long investigation by the House Homeland Security Committee into the causes, costs, and consequences of the unprecedented border crisis. Secretary Mayorkas refuses to comply with numerous detention requirements and misused parole authority as spelled out by the Immigration and Nationality Act. This has led to the release of more than 3.3 million illegal immigrants into the United States, and although CBP has disclosed that 172 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended at the border in FY23, Secretary Mayorkas has failed to do anything meaningful to further secure the country. For these reasons, I voted to impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”

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