Marsha Blackburn Directly Calls Out Schumer For Leading Dismissal Of Mayorkas Impeachment Articles

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On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed Democrats for dismissing impeachment articles against DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas.

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00:00 colleague the senior senator from the state of Tennessee I'd love to get her

00:03 thoughts on what happened today. Thank you so much to the senator from Utah for

00:09 organizing this. You know Madam President I think it is so important for the

00:14 American people to really understand what did happen here today and what we

00:21 saw happen here today is a violation of our oath. The oath that we take that we

00:30 are going to abide by the Constitution. Now those who are watching this and I

00:37 would encourage all of my colleagues among us to pull out that Constitution

00:42 and read article 1 section 2 which lays out the process of impeachment for the

00:53 House of Representatives and then section 3 of that Constitution lays out

01:00 the duty of the Senate in that Constitution. Now I have a poster up here

01:07 from 2019 it is Chuck Schumer this was during the Trump impeachment in 2019. Now

01:20 Chuck Schumer who's currently the majority leader basically made a full

01:26 time job of talking about how the Senate had to do their constitutional duty to

01:36 hold a trial. That's all he talked about for days the clips are all over the

01:45 internet. One thing he repeatedly said we have a responsibility to let the facts

01:52 come out. A responsibility. Now we have to save what has changed between 2019,

02:03 2020 and today. Well of course we know what changed for Chuck Schumer because

02:13 he's desperate to hold on to the majority in this house and he did not

02:19 want some of the senators who are highly contested in their races to have to take

02:27 a vote on the Mayorkas impeachment. Why is that Madam President? It is because

02:32 the number one issue with the American people is that open southern border and

02:39 who is it that has regularly lied to this chamber, to the House and to the

02:50 American people about what's going on at the southern border? It is Secretary

02:57 Alejandro Mayorkas. Repeatedly lied. Repeatedly stood before the American

03:06 people, stood before us in hearings and committees and said the border is secure.

03:14 Anyone who is watching, anyone who's ever been to that border knows the border is

03:22 not secure. They know that on the Mexico side of that border it is being run by

03:30 the cartels. You can spend an hour with the Border Patrol and you will find out.

03:37 Last year there were people from a hundred and seventy different countries

03:43 that came to that southern border seeking entry. Not a one of them got here

03:48 on their own. They get flown to Mexico, they pay the cartels and the cartels

03:53 bring them over. The cartels are making a fortune. We are paying the price and

04:01 we're paying this price because of the dereliction of duty carried out by

04:08 Secretary Mayorkas. The way he's not standing up for the Border Patrol, the

04:13 way he's not standing up for the American people, that is an issue. And yes,

04:19 a responsibility. Did we have that responsibility? You bet we do. And that is

04:26 why we are here on this floor to talk about this. Because our border, when you

04:36 look at the drugs, the fentanyl that are coming across that border and moving

04:43 into communities across this state, this country, every state, a border state, every

04:50 town, a border town, every single family affected or worried about the

04:57 consequences of the border. Thousands of Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning.

05:07 Other Americans that have become angel parents because their children, their

05:14 spouses have been killed in auto accidents by criminal, illegal aliens.

05:24 What they have done to this country by opening that border, and you know the sad

05:29 thing about this, it is very intentional. This is their border policy. They

05:36 intend to do this. So looking at the drugs, looking at the crime and the gangs,

05:44 and then of course looking at the human trafficking. On Mayorkas' watch, and

05:51 Madam President, this is something that is so important for the American people

05:56 to know. In Tennessee, we have several groups that work on human trafficking

06:01 and seek to rescue women and girls and children that are being trafficked,

06:08 sexually trafficked, the exploitation of these children. And we know that is

06:19 driven by the cartels. The cartels have turned human trafficking in this country

06:26 from a 500 million dollar a year industry, over the last three and a half

06:34 years, it has become a 13 billion with the "B". People are being trafficked, indeed

06:42 children are being used as as aids for these traffickers. They're being recycled.

06:50 And these precious children have their name, they have the contact name and the

06:57 phone number in indelible ink, written on their backs, written on their arms,

07:03 because the cartel uses these children to get cartel members across the border

07:10 posing as families. And then once that cartel member is in the U.S., they turn

07:17 that child loose and then the child gets sent back. That is disgusting. But because

07:27 of Biden and Mayorkas and the open border, that is what is happening. Now

07:33 even worse, we have an issue that Secretary Mayorkas claims he knew

07:39 nothing about, and it was the loss of 85,000 migrant children. Now we've got

07:47 400,000 migrant children that have been turned over to the federal government

07:53 under Secretary Mayorkas. Out of this, 85,000 of those children cannot be

08:02 accounted for. We've asked Secretary Becerra, we've asked Secretary Mayorkas,

08:08 where are these children? They do not know. They do not know if these 85,000

08:16 children are dead or alive. They do not know if they've been attached to drug

08:23 mules or drug traffickers or if they've been put into gangs, labor crews. What we

08:30 did find out from some reporters, Madam Secretary, is this. We found out that some

08:38 of these children were working in slaughterhouses in the night. That's what

08:45 we found out. Oh, by the way, that was from a New York Times reporter. This

08:51 situation at the southern border is a humanitarian crisis. The trafficking of

08:58 human beings is a crisis. Using human beings as chattel, that is a crisis.

09:05 Putting people into indentured servitude and slavery, that is a crisis. And who has

09:12 lied about this repeatedly to the Senate, to the House, is Secretary

09:20 Alejandro Mayorkas. And who voted for it? Every Democrat on that side of the aisle

09:28 that refused to let this trial come forward, each and every one. You are

09:35 responsible for this not coming to light. It is a dereliction of your

09:43 constitutional duty and a responsibility. Yes, it is a responsibility that we as

09:52 members have to make certain that the American people know what happened today.

10:02 Thank you, Senator Blackburn. Another great mind, we've all benefited from in

10:11 the Senate, is our friend and colleague

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