WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Sen. Johnson spoke on the Senate floor, explaining why Senate Democrats abdicated their constitutional duty and did great harm to the U.S. Senate by cavalierly dismissing the serious charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. They did so, because they do not want the American people to see how disastrous their open border policy is.

Sen. Johnson’s full speech can be found here. 

On how Mayorkas aided and abetted all the damage, destruction, and crimes at the southern border

“This chart, had we had a trial, this would have been the irrefutable DNA evidence to prove the crime. There's no way you can take a look at the history of illegal entry into this country and not recognize that what has happened under the Biden administration, under Secretary Mayorkas, is nothing less than an utter catastrophe…

“What this chart shows is that this was purposeful. This was willful. President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, our Democrat colleagues here in Congress, in the Senate, they want an open border. They caused this crisis. This didn't just happen. This was a game plan that they implemented. They aided and abetted all the damage, all the destruction, all the crimes that are a result of this. They have aided and abetted it… 

“There is nothing humane about facilitating the multibillion-dollar business model of some of the most evil people on the planet. The human traffickers, the sex traffickers, the drug traffickers. How many overdose deaths have we experienced throughout America? Because of this open border policy? There's nothing humane about that…

“But I asked him, Secretary Mayorkas, ‘I mean, don't you recognize this is a crisis?’ And this is where he was saying, ‘we've got a secure border. I wouldn't say it's a crisis.’ ‘Would you at least admit it's a problem?’ ‘No Senator, it's a challenge.’ Now, I would view that as a lie. I would have liked to have heard the evidence presented by the House managers of other instances where Secretary Mayorkas lied to Congress, which, again, as I thought was deftly pointed out by the senator from Louisiana. Isn't that a felony? And doesn't impeachment only have to be a misdemeanor? Again, so there's so much wrong in what our Democratic colleagues did today by just summarily, cavalierly dismissing these charges. It's going to come back to haunt our country.”

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