As Mayorkas heads for ultimate Senate confirmation, Cruz on Twitter shared a letter on Twitter directed to his Congressional colleagues, explaining what he has described as a “long list of ethical, legal, and policy failures” throughout Mayorkas’s public service tenure.
Mayorkas beforehand served as the deputy secretary of DHS in the Obama administration, and as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
These missteps, Cruz’s office stated, include “abuses of power that provided special government favors to benefit well-connected Democrats, such as securing an EB-5 visa for a high-level official at Huawei, a global espionage operation of the Chinese Communist Party masquerading as a technology company.”
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“Mr. Mayorkas has shown a repeated disregard for the rule of law,” Cruz claims in his letter, pointing out an “extensive and damning” 2015 inspector general’s report on his prior actions throughout his role as USCIS director.
Cruz stated that the report “brought to light his improper actions as the Director of USCIS.”
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The report examined how the 61-year-old meddled in the EB-5 visa program process in a dubious way for wealthy investors. It eventually concluded that Mayorkas didn’t violate any laws, yet had created the appearance of “special access."
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“Mayorkas overrode normal process in order to provide political favors under the EB-5 visa program to well-connected Democrat stakeholders—including a company run by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s brother that sought a visa for a vice president of Huawei Technologies and a company in which Senator Harry Reid’s son was involved,” Cruz’s letter announces.
“Mr. Mayorkas’s improper intervention was the deciding factor in granting visas to politically favored companies and people, and led to ‘significant resentment’ among not only career staff but ‘senior managers and attorneys responsible for USCIS mission and programs.’ As the Inspector General bluntly put it, Mr. Mayorkas’s intervention was ‘corrosive and destabilizing,’” the letter states.
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Cruz further underlined that when Mayorkas was confirmed in 2013, he did not get any Republican votes in the Senate.
“As we did in 2013, we should stand firm and refuse to confirm Mr. Mayorkas,” Cruz’s letter concludes.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) last week warned that he would place a hold on the fast-track nomination process of Mayorkas, mere hours after the Senate Homeland Security Committee closed its hearing with Biden’s pick.
Hawley announced he took issue with answers given by Mayorkas of how he will secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
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