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The chairman of the House\u2019s biggest Republican caucus says he \u201cstands by\u201d his call for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to cross the southern border.\xa0\nRep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., first advocated that the House impeach Mayorkas in October, and earlier this week Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, filed articles of impeachment against the homeland security secretary.\n\u201cIn October of 2022, I think I was the first to formally call for him to be impeached. I stand by that,\u201d Hern, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, says on \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast.\u201d\n\u201cI actually called first for Mayorkas back in February of 2022 to resign,\u201d the Oklahoma Republican says. \u201cAnd we had a meeting with him with 40 of our Republican members at the Border Caucus meeting at the Capitol. To his credit, he showed up for the meeting [but] was very, very defiant then that there was any problem, when there\u2019d been some two and a half million people had crossed at that time under his watch.\u201d\n\u201cSecretary Mayorkas has been involved with the border since 2005 as the deputy homeland security director, and other immigration processes over the years from California,\u201d Hern says. \u201cAnd it is amazing to the American people, based on everything that we have seen, that he still thinks there\u2019s control of the southern border.\u201d\nAlso on this episode of \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast,\u201d Hern talks about the 15 ballots to elect a speaker of the House; his goals as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House; and his thoughts on the Pentagon\u2019s\xa0lifting\xa0its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the armed forces.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.