House Republicans moved in historic fashion and impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single vote on Tuesday night, succeeding on their second try in punishing the steward of President Biden’s immigration policy.

The unprecedented and partisan resolution — which cleared the House over opposition from Democrats and three GOP members — may not go very far in the Senate, as some Republicans in the upper chamber do not believe that Mayorkas’s actions clear the bar for the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary for conviction. But Mayorkas is the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached and some bipartisan and legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon.

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  • m_randall@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:

    https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration

    “About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”

    So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.

    That includes countries other than South America:

    “76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“

    I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.

    Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.

    Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

    Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.