Mayorkas impeachment no more than ‘absurd political theater’ | READER COMMENTARY

The writer of the screed urging the U.S. Senate to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed to state what sort of crime Mayorkas committed that warrants impeachment (“When will Mayorkas be held accountable?” April 19). In fairness, I don’t think the letter writer is any different from the nativists in the U.S. House of Representatives who were more interested in impeaching Mayorkas than actually passing bipartisan Senate legislation that addressed their immigration concerns.

Zachary Mueller at America’s Voice has calculated that $100 million has already been spent to gin up anti-immigration rhetoric by the Republican Party during this election cycle. And that was the real reason no bipartisan legislation got passed. So the whole spectacle of impeaching Mayorkas can be seen for what it is: namely, absurd political theatre.

There might be plenty of blame to go around about the humanitarian disaster at the southern border, but the Republican solution to this is always harsher policies for the most desperate and non-white.

— Paul R. Schlitz Jr., Baltimore

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