Calls to impeach Biden over border crisis gain steam among GOP lawmakers

by mcardinal

Chris Lange, FISM News

 

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was widely panned by the media last month for suggesting that an impeachment of President Biden over his administration’s handling of the nation’s border crisis was a possibility. The idea, however, has been gaining traction among GOP members of Congress looking to take control of the House in November’s midterm elections. 

Lance Gooden, representing Texas’ 5th District, which has seen a massive surge in illegal immigration, said impeachment seems more and more likely as the border crisis spreads to the country’s interior, according to a Just the News report

“I really believe that impeachment could be on the table,” Gooden said. “And I would support that, certainly.”

Gooden has been investigating what by all accounts appears to be a concerted effort by the Biden administration and nonprofit, pro-migrant groups to fund and facilitate the illegal movement of large numbers of illegal aliens from the southern border into multiple unsuspecting states further north. According to the Republican congressman, his team has uncovered travel packages for illegal immigrants and identified security provisions that allow migrant arrest warrants to serve as acceptable forms of ID to board American planes. 

Gooden’s findings represent just a portion of mounting evidence implicating the Biden administration in the nation’s border crisis.

FISM previously reported on shocking video footage showing a large number of single, male migrants being transported by federal buses to an obscure parking garage in Brownsville, Texas where their travel into other U.S. cities was being facilitated. Another bombshell video showed illegal immigrants being loaded onto taxpayer-funded charter flights at a Texas airport under cover of darkness as federal contractors discussed the covert operation with a local police officer.

The Republican National Committee last week issued a scathing written rebuke to the Biden administration for prioritizing illegal immigrants, including felons, over American citizens, citing, among other things, their refusal to publish a 2021 fiscal year report on deportations, now more than a month overdue. 

While the vast majority of Republican lawmakers were vigorously opposed to the Democrats’ two failed impeachment attempts against former President Donald Trump, Gooden says Biden’s egregious mismanagement of the border and failure to enforce border laws more than justifies his removal from office.

“The bar was so low to impeach President Trump. And even if the bar were raised exponentially, I believe that President Biden has met that requirement,” Gooden said during a John Solomon Reports podcast. “What we’re seeing at the border is not just criminal, but it is immoral,” he added.

When Sen. Cruz floated the idea of a Biden impeachment in early January, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell denied that it would happen, but with each new damning report exposing the extent to which the White House has gone to subvert border laws at the cost of American sovereignty and security, a growing number of Republicans are coming onboard. 

“Anything is on the table when we are in the majority,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said of the possibility of impeachment.

New York is one of several states that has experienced an influx of migrants shipped in from Texas, leading Stefanik to call the situation a catastrophe:

We’re focused like a laser on the crises in America, and what I hear from voters even in my district in Northern New York — because I represent border patrol officers who have been transferred again and again and again to the southern border — is that the crisis after crisis is a catastrophe. What I believe we should focus on is conducting oversight, and making sure that we’re passing legislation to secure the border once and for all and return the policies of the previous administration under President Trump.

Some of the GOP caucus’ most outspoken members, including Reps. Marjorie Taylore Greene of Georgia and Ohio’s Bob Gibbs, previously introduced articles of impeachment, despite Democrats holding the majority in both the House and Senate. 

“This is a shot across the bow,” Gibbs told the Columbus Dispatch in September after filing impeachment articles against Biden over the border crisis and his administration’s botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan. “When Republicans take back the House, we will take our commitment to the separation of powers, our role as a check and balance to the executive branch, seriously,” he said. “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the entire administration is officially on notice.”

Impeachment has even become a talking point on the campaign trail. Ohio Senatorial candidate J.D. Vance, a Republican, recently told supporters that Biden’s paid “invasion” of America’s southern border justifies his removal from office, according to a Washington Post report. Ohio has seen an uptick in drug overdoses tied to border trafficking since Biden took office in 2020. 

Vance also called Biden’s inaction at the border “traitorous,” pointing out that it has directly led to the death of many American citizens:

A lot of negative things I could say about Bill Clinton, but Bill Clinton did not allow an invasion on this scale, or actively encourage people to do it, even while the leading cause of death for communities, among young people, is the fentanyl they’re bringing in from Mexico. This is ridiculous, it’s traitorous conduct, and we need to do something about it.

Cruz has denied that these threats are a ploy by Republicans to exact retribution on Democrats for the Trump impeachment trials.  He instead contends that the border crisis and Biden’s refusal to enforce U.S. immigration laws are, in fact, legitimate grounds for Biden’s removal from office.

“Probably the most compelling [grounds are] the utter lawlessness of President Biden’s refusal to enforce the border,” Cruz said during a recent “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast, as reported by the Texas Tribune. “His decision to just defy federal immigration laws and allow two million people to come here unimpeded in direct contravention of his obligation under Article 2 of the Constitution…that is probably the strongest grounds right now for impeachment, but there may be others,” Cruz added.

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