Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is responsible for the failure to secure the United States/Mexico border and House Republicans have to impeach him for the safety of the United States, Rep. Michael McCaul said Sunday.
"I'm one voice but I represent 800,000 people," the Texas Republican, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee said in an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "When I go home the No. 1 issue is the border, and this one man is the architect of destruction down here.
"One man has caused all this chaos, deaths of fentanyl poisoning, you know, danger to the country with terrorists coming in, 8 million encounters with no legal status. He is the architect. He has destroyed the fabric of this nation."
The House is working to present the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas on Jan. 31, he added, and "we will impeach him after that," McCaul promised.
"He is the one who has injured society as the Founding Fathers talked about," said McCaul. "Breach of public trust was sufficient for impeachment by the Founding Fathers, and we intend to go forward."
Meanwhile, McCaul was one of 107 House Republicans joining with 207 Democrats to vote to keep the government funded, and he defended his decision, even though the measure did not include new border funding.
"I didn't kick any can down the road," he said. "I didn't want to take my football and go home and not play on the football field. You can't win the game if you're not on the field. And the fact is it would jeopardize our military readiness at a very dangerous time, our veterans."
Further, McCaul said, he was with the Border Patrol all day Saturday and if he had to come home and tell them they wouldn't get their paychecks, "that's insulting."
"What we need is about a month to get this right," he said. "We want to get a border security package. We didn't have it, an agreement, and that's unfortunate.
"The whole process should have been done a year ago, but we had to make a decision where we were. I think we made the responsible decision. Going home with our football and not being on the field doesn't solve anything."
McCaul further on Sunday discussed the growing border crisis and pointed out that matters have only become worse under President Joe Biden, who rescinded the Trump-era policies that had been working.
The loss of the "Remain in Mexico," as well as migrant protection protocols, resulted in millions of encounters at the border, including with people on the terrorism watch list, he said.
"It's tearing apart the fabric of this nation, it's a human tragedy, and it needs to stop," the congressman added. "I'm going down to Mexico City to talk to the president of Mexico and all the elected officials and government officials, to stop sending fentanyl into the United States, stop the flow of migrants into the United States."
"What we saw yesterday is we don't have enough detention space, so they release them, catch and release, into society," said McCaul. "That is the key here. That has to stop. It's not throwing a bunch of money down here; it's policy changes."
McCaul added that he believes Republicans will stand behind strengthening the border policies, but a lot of Democrats know something needs to be done.
"It's not just here [in Texas]," said McCaul. "It's in New York, it's in Ohio, it's everywhere across the nation that's impacted, and thank god my governor has sent the migrants to New York so they can get a little bit of a taste about what we experience here."