U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) joined Monday’s edition of The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy to discuss the Senate’s so-called “border deal” and the House of Representatives’ upcoming vote on two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
On the upcoming impeachment vote against Mayorkas, Ogles said the votes in the House “should be there” to impeach the secretary, adding, “We have an obligation to move forward and hold him accountable and put on the record that you can’t just ignore our laws in this country.”
“He’s the guy that essentially allows our country to be invaded at the southern border to the tune of about eight million people…This guy is complicit with really overrunning our country,” Ogles said.
Pivoting to the Senate “border deal,” which is a $118.3 billion emergency spending package that would fund U.S. national security efforts in Ukraine, Israel, and at the U.S.-Mexico border, Ogles confirmed reports that the package would be dead on arrival once sent to the House.
Ogles noted that the Senate “has a solution” in regards to securing the southern border, naming H.R. 2 – the Secure the Border Act of 2023.
“Roughly eight months ago, the House of Representatives passed House Bill 2 which does secure the border and it does the right thing to make our country safe. And the Senate has not taken that up. So they have a solution sitting on their desk, but they’re more interested in trying to get more voters in by bringing in illegals, giving them the right to vote so they have a built-in constituency. And they’re literally changing communities or trying to change communities in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas,” Ogles explained. “But hopefully the American people are wising up. I mean, when you’ve got the mayor of Chicago and New York saying, “please stop, please close the border,” that should be a canary in the coal mine for the Biden administration. But you know, he’s clueless. So who knows?”
Ogles, noting that the Senate’s spending package is a “waste of taxpayer money,” announced that he will be filing a bill called the Send Them Back Act that would deport every migrant that has come into the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration.
Ogles said his bill will “send a message back to the Senate” demonstrating “what the American people want.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
