Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to be the most useless and incompetent Cabinet secretary in recent memory. It is an open question whether he has done anything right in his 3 1/2 years on the job.
Each new detail revealed about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump reflects poorly on Mayorkas, both because he oversees the Secret Service and because he declared he has “100% confidence in the director of the United States Secret Service” who oversaw this disaster. The latest revelation is that the Secret Service identified the shooter as a suspicious person an hour before the speech and apparently knew of a possible threat 10 minutes before Trump even walked onstage.
In other words, the Secret Service allowed Trump to walk onstage knowing there was a threat after apparently losing track of the suspicious person who was identified an hour earlier. The result is that he was nearly assassinated and one person was murdered.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle obviously should be fired for this, given that she will not resign. Mayorkas’s insistence on standing by her despite how obvious this decision should be is yet another of his failures. You can add it to his failures on the southern border, where he has allowed a massive surge of illegal immigration, which includes a surge in illegal immigrants who are on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. Possible terrorists aside, illegal immigrants with criminal records in their own countries have killed Americans in several high-profile cases under Mayorkas’s watch.
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By every possible metric, Mayorkas has failed at “Homeland Security.” He has been in charge of securing the southern border, which has resulted in record levels of illegal immigration. He is in charge of protecting people from foreign threats on American soil but has allowed illegal immigrants to flow into the country and kill several people. He is in charge of the organization that protects presidents, and yet one was nearly murdered under his watch, the closest we have come to the assassination of a president since 1981.
There have been no redeeming qualities of Mayorkas’s tenure. He is an utter failure in every regard, a man who refuses to do his job and arrogantly refuses to answer for his failures or those of his subordinates. He should have been impeached and removed well before now, and every day that he continues to helm the Department of Homeland Security is a day that Americans are less safe.