Fort Morgan Times: U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, said during a heated exchange Thursday with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that those in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District find his actions along the nation’s southern border to be traitorous and deserving of impeachment.
Illegal border crossings could reach 18,000 per day following the nearing revocation of the Title 42 policy, which Buck has opposed. More than 2.4 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border since President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has said the illegal immigrant population could reach a total greater than his state’s population within Biden’s first term.
“Many of my constituents have asked me whether you will be impeached when Republicans gain control next year,” Buck said during Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing. “They don’t believe that you’ve committed a high crime and they don’t believe that you’ve committed a misdemeanor. My constituents want you impeached because they believe that you’ve committed treason. They believe you are a traitor and compare you to Benedict Arnold.”
The actions of Mayorkas amount to a sabotage of the country stemming from “catastrophic and deliberate mishandling” of the border, Buck said Friday in an interview with The Fort Morgan Times. He has previously described policy as a willful disregard of immigration law.
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