Some Dare Call It Treason

We had some good news recently: the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee voted to recommend two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The matter now will be taken up by the entire House. If the House votes to impeach (which is by no means certain, given the number of RINOs who populate the House), Mayorkas will have to stand trial in the Senate.

Under Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security has been totally emasculated, at least with respect to the securing of our border with Mexico. Millions of illegals have poured into the United States under his watch. Mayorkas has in effect become the best friend of the Mexican drug cartels and the child traffickers. Thanks to Mayorkas’s abdication of border protection, the Mexican drug cartels have flooded the United States with fentanyl and other deadly or potentially deadly drugs. This has resulted in the deaths of approximately 100,000 American citizens every year.

The articles of impeachment approved by the House Committee charge that Mayorkas “willfully and systematically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws.” The use of the word “willful” is very significant in this context. This is not a case of a federal official who snoozed away his afternoons after three martini lunches and then settled in for a long cigar smoke with his cronies. It’s not a case of neglect and incompetence, it’s a case of a man who deliberately and intentionally worked to undermine, frustrate, and ignore federal law.

If Biden had appointed a Mexican drug lord as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, we probably wouldn’t have gotten any worse of a result. Indeed, because the drug cartels charge a fee for the privilege of sneaking into the United States from Mexico, they probably would have cracked down on illegals trying to sneak into the United States without paying a fee — simply to protect their own fee arrangements. It can be guessed that a Mexican drug lord likely would have reduced illegal immigration into the United States more than Mayorkas has.

The state of Texas tried to protect its border by installing razor wire barriers. If any proof is needed that Mayorkas’s goal is to sabotage U.S. protection of its border, that proof was supplied when Biden’s corrupt, progressive-infested, and tyrannical Department of Justice sued Texas in the federal courts and won a ruling barring Texas from protecting itself from the evils of illegal immigration.

The Constitution of the United States carefully defines the crime of treason in Article Three, Section 3 as levying war against the United States “or in adhering to their enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Conviction of treason under the Constitution requires the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.

Are the Mexican drug cartels the “enemies” of the United States? It’s hard to see how they are anything but enemies. They have killed and are currently killing about 100,000 Americans each year with the deadly drugs they are illegally importing into the United States. If some nation in the world made it their policy to do this, all or almost all Americans would consider that nation to be an enemy of the United States — and it would soon be brought to a screeching halt, first with ultimatums from the White House and then with war.

Mayorkas is giving the Mexican drug cartels aid and comfort not only by refusing to enforce U.S. immigration but also by affirmatively working to undermine that law. How then is Mayorkas different from a U.S. Army general who, when told of an impending invasion of the United States by another nation, withdraws U.S. troops from the border for the express purpose of allowing the invasion to occur? Wouldn’t the withdrawal of U.S. troops under these circumstances amount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy?

The testimony of two witnesses to an overt act is required, but presumably, it wouldn’t be too difficult to find Border Patrol agents who could testify to “stand-down”-type orders coming down from Washington that can be traced directly to Mayorkas.

Prospects for convicting Mayorkas in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate are probably slim to none at this point. Should a Republican win the White House in 2024, however, all the cards would remain on the table in terms of prosecution for treason, not only for Mayorkas but also possibly for Biden himself.