Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., told Newsmax on Wednesday that the Biden administration's decision to "subvert" U.S. immigration laws will be challenged by the House Homeland Security Committee as it takes up the issue of articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"Look, the issue is very straightforward," Bishop said during an appearance on Newsmax's "National Report." "It's not just a question of whether there's an intentionality in a policy way for the Biden administration to subvert the southwestern border. It is a wholesale violation of innumerable laws that Congress has passed … but, for the law to be vindicated, Congress has to assert those laws when the presidency decides to subvert them wholesale and that's what we're about today in the Homeland Security Committee."
Mayorkas will come under scrutiny Wednesday as the Republican-led House committee moves to impeach him over allegations he has encouraged illegal immigration by failing to secure the southern border.
The hearing will reportedly focus on the GOP claim that Mayorkas has refused to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress.
When asked about White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's claims that Republicans are to blame for the issues at the border because they have blocked the necessary funding, Bishop, who is a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said, "It all is absurd on a certain level."
"The only solution the Biden administration ever proposed legislatively, if that were the problem, is to allow more immigration and to grant amnesty to those who have entered illegally," he said. "How that would solve the problem that the country is confronting, the administration has never been constrained to explain.
"How would New York avoid the situation with a school being shut down and students going to remote learning so that this overwhelming deluge of immigrants could be sheltered from the elements in a school?" he asked. "How could that be done by having more immigration, more amnesty, just legal?"
The real issue, Bishop said, is something else entirely.
"It is not up to the administration — because they don't like the policies established by law by the Congress of the United States — to dismiss them, to subvert them, to disobey the laws," he said. "And that is what the administration has chosen to do."
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