(DailyAnswer.org) – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that the murders of American citizens by illegal immigrants should not be politicized. His comments come after Republicans narrowly lost a vote 214-216 to impeach Mayorkas over the Southern Border Crisis, though Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to hold another vote.
Four Republican rebels joined Democrats in voting against impeaching Mayorkas. After the vote, the Democrat said that the allegations against him are baseless and that he is not to blame for a “broken system.” 1 million have entered the US illegally across the Southern Border since October, as each month has seen a record number of crossings.
In 2023, Mayorkas had to face the family of 7-year-old granddaughter Emilia Tambunga and her 71-year-old grandmother Maria Tambunga, who were killed in a high-speed crash caused by 22-year-old Rassian Natery Comer, who was driving at 105 mph. Comer was filming himself driving and allegedly trafficking 11 migrants. Texas Republican Representative August Pfluger argued that Mayorkas’ lax immigration policies had resulted in the two deaths. When invited to join the grieving family in Pfluger’s office, Mayorkas said that he would only do so if the deaths were not politicized, to which Pfluger responded that Mayorkas was the only one politicizing them.
As the impeachment trial was underway in early 2023, Mayorkas did not even show up to a planned meeting with other grieving mothers whose children were killed by illegal immigrants. Josephine Dunn, who spoke at the hearing, lost her 26-year-old daughter Ashley to an accidental overdose of fentanyl that she had bought thinking it was oxycodone. The smuggling of fentanyl across the border continues to be a major cause for concern in the opioid epidemic. Tammy Nobles, another speaker at the hearing who expected to face Mayorkas, lost her 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton, who was raped and killed in 2022, allegedly by an MS-13 gang member who crossed the border illegally and was released into the public as an “Unaccompanied Alien Child.”
Mayorkas called the crash that killed Maria and Emilia Tabunga “extraordinarily tragic.” Still, his vague apology did not convince grieving mother, Elisa Tabunga, who met with Mayorkas after the hearing to confront him with a private video of her daughter. Along with Mayorkas, President Joe Biden has been accused of ignoring the grieving families who lost their children as a result of illegal immigration. For three consecutive years, the President has ignored the National Day of Remembrance for Americans murdered by illegal immigrants that was introduced by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
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