With Congressional Republicans holding hearings to impeach U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, Florida Attorney General (AG) Ashley Moody supports the move a hundred percent.
Over the last two years, the AG has been out front calling on Congress to impeach Mayorkas for his failure to address the border crisis that has happened under the Biden administration. Now other state AGs are following Moody’s lead.
“Secretary Mayorkas has undoubtedly orchestrated the most destructive and harmful border security policies in the history of the United States. Every time we believe the numbers cannot possibly get worse; they do. With every court battle we have won, and every fact we have revealed, to say he has been derelict in his duties is an understatement. For nearly two years and with every passing month, this crisis worsens, straining public resources and endangering American citizens. The United States House of Representatives has a duty and responsibility to the American people. Secretary Mayorkas must be impeached,” said Moody.
In March 2023, a federal court agreed with Attorney General Moody’s office finding Sec. Mayorkas and the Biden administration responsible for the border crisis.
During the course of discovery and litigation in that case, Florida forced the federal government to provide or disclose the following:
A deposition of former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz showing the Biden administration purposely reduced detention capacity of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and narrowed removal pathways. Ortiz claimed these changes left Border Patrol with no other choice but to release hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the interior.
Ortiz also agreed that Biden’s policies caused the unprecedented surge at the border.
A memo outlining the federal government’s plan in the event immigrants overrun the border when Title 42 expired—the mass-release of migrants into the United States;
Moody’s office says testimony and deposition of ICE Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations Corey Price confirmed the Biden administration knew its immigration priorities would cut enforcement in half and still implemented them. Price also confirmed that ICE is removing more than seven times fewer inadmissible immigrants than in 2012, booking in roughly half the number of immigrants than the previous administration; and
ICE training videos showing officials discussing the logistical problems created when federal authorities intentionally released tens of thousands of immigrants without charging documents—a formal legal document requiring immigrants to appear before an immigration judge.
The court found that “the evidence establishes that Defendants [including Secretary Mayorkas] have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand” and that Sec. Mayorkas’s “actions were akin to posting a flashing ‘Come In, We’re Open’ sign on the southern border.”
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