A group of Republican lawmakers are pushing to lower Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's salary to $1 as the latest method to punish the secretary over his response to the border crisis.

Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Claudia Tenney (R-NY) are leading the effort to use the Holman rule to reduce Mayorkas's salary, claiming the salary needs to reflect the secretary's failure to secure the southern border. The Holman rule allows Congress to slash the salaries of government officials.

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"Secretary Mayorkas should not be paid hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to continually fail to protect American taxpayers from threats crossing our borders," Tenney said in a statement. "Thanks to Secretary Mayorkas’s work, or lack thereof, there have been at least 5.8 million illegal crossings of our southern border since Biden took office, turning all our communities into border communities. If the president is refusing to fire him for his dereliction of duty, his salary must reflect his failures."

Roy and Tenney are attempting to use the rule in an amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations bill, and comes after conservatives have called on Mayorkas to step down, called on the Biden administration to fire Mayorkas for alleged "dereliction of duty," and introduced articles of impeachment against the secretary.

"It’s time to end this border crisis once and for all. The American people have no obligation to keep paying a federal official who refuses to do his job and uphold his oath, and that's why we should zero out Mayorkas's salary," Roy said in a statement. "I’m glad to work with Rep. Tenney in this fight to regain operational control of the border."

Roy has previously threatened to withhold his support for any appropriations bill if Congress does not vote to tighten security at the southern border, which he calls a "national crisis."

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An influx of immigrants has caused a border and migration crisis across the country. Border states and liberal sanctuary cities such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., have been hit particularly hard after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) sent immigrants to the sanctuary cities by bus. New York has seen more than 100,000 immigrant arrivals since the spring of 2022.

Initial numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that 182,401 people were apprehended for illegally entering the country nationwide in August.