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The flood of illegal aliens across the southern border has turned every state into a border state and forced school districts across the nation to stretch their limited resources. All because of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ unlawful actions.
 
In Case You Missed It, ahead of a House vote to impeach Mayorkas, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) penned an op-ed for the Washington Times laying out why Mayorkas must be removed from office.


Why impeaching Mayorkas is every member of Congress’ duty
By Reps. Virginia Foxx and Mark Green
January 30, 2023
 
The unprecedented chaos at the southern border under Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has devastated our country. With the spread of deadly fentanyl, increasing crime in our communities and bad actors exploiting migrant children at an unprecedented rate, the last three years have exacted a tremendous human cost.
 
We have heard from local leaders around the country that school districts are being stretched thin because of the flood of new students. For schools, it’s a capacity issue. Only so many students can fit into the classrooms available.
 
According to one report, New York City had 21,000 newly enrolled migrant children this school year. If this number of students were in North Carolina or Tennessee, it would cost our states between $2.3 million and $2.5 million a year.
 
A continual flow of new students will inevitably strain public resources and severely increase education costs for local and state governments as well as the federal government.
 
This surge is also having negative effects on the quality of education. In New York, for example, students were kicked out of their school and forced into online learning so that migrants could sleep in their gym. Parents were rightly frustrated after seeing how ineffective online education was at the height of the pandemic. Many students are still suffering from learning loss; every day of school counts.
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Student safety is also at risk. Several blue cities have housed illegal immigrants in elementary and secondary schools since the surge began under Mr. Mayorkas. For this reason, we supported H. Res. 461, which condemned putting minors in possible contact with unvetted adults who are in the U.S. illegally. American students should not be the collateral damage of Mr. Mayorkas’ border calamity.
 
These are the consequences of Mr. Mayorkas’ unlawful and deliberate actions that prevent CBP from securing the border. These actions also create an incentive for mass migration into communities across the country, making every state in effect a border state.
 
As chairs of committees in the House of Representatives, we have a duty to provide oversight of the executive branch. As diligent oversight and legislation to secure the border has been met with defiance, Congress has only one recourse to hold accountable a Cabinet secretary who does not uphold his oath of office: impeachment.
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Read the full op-ed HERE.