Louisiana Attorney General issued the following announcement on Feb. 22.
The top law enforcement officers of 14 states, including Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, are calling for the resignation of U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Citing the continued failure to enforce federal law and secure the southwest border, Attorney General Landry and his coalition demand that Secretary Mayorkas leave office as his failed leadership has taken the republic to the verge of a national security crisis.
“Secretary Mayorkas has failed at his chief responsibility – protecting our homeland,” said Attorney General Landry. “Refusing to deport violent criminals and allowing fentanyl and other deadly drugs into our country are threats to our citizens and our national security; Secretary Mayorkas must resign immediately.”
In a letter to Secretary Mayorkas, Attorney General Landry and his colleagues outline the failures of the Secretary’s leadership – including allowing Mexican drug cartels to exploit his open border policies. “From the time you took office to December 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in our country six times over—an increase of more than 30 percent since before you took office. If that much was detected and seized, we shudder to think how much more is slipping through each day…Any competent leader facing such disastrous results would quickly alter their policies to abate the extraordinary harm…Yet you continue undeterred, oblivious…to the destruction and deaths you are causing in American communities.”
The letter also highlights that, under Secretary Mayorkas, there has been no attempt to vet or certify the thousands of illegal immigrants entering through the southwest border. “The number of sex offenders arrested entering our country increased by an astounding 213 percent over the last fiscal year. Given your unlawful catch and release policies, we are left with many other unanswerable questions, like how many children are now being trafficked in our communities and how many sex offenders now prowl our streets.”
The Secretary’s refusal to enforce the law has led to the rise of convicted criminals entering the country. “Deportations have fallen a staggering 70 percent since 2020… Perhaps most egregiously, you have refused to deport some of the most dangerous criminals, even though you are required by law to do so. That decision is shocking, especially because Democrats and Republicans alike have always prioritized the removal of criminals here illegally, including when you were Deputy Secretary of DHS from 2013-2016.”
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