For the first time ever, the House has voted to impeach a Cabinet member. After failing on its first try last week, the Republican-led House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes as Congress continues to debate packaging hard-line immigration measures with foreign military aid. “The sad reality is that the politics of immigration policy have really taken over in Congress,” says law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, who discusses the Democrats’ “dead-end strategy” of trying to “out-tough the Republican Party when it comes to immigration policy.” He also discusses his new book, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”, which makes the case for not deporting undocumented immigrants even if they commit a crime. “I want immigration law to reflect the reality of the humans that it is supposed to serve.”
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