At a public hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, Homeland Invasion and Slave Trafficking Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged the obvious: that the conditions along the southern border will get even worse next month when the Biden administration rescinds the Trump administration’s highly effective Title 42 pandemic authority to immediately expel illegals.

But never fear: Mayorkas said he and his team are working to adapt to the changed conditions. Uh-huh.

What might those adaptations entail? Well, given that DHS is far short on detention space, the nation’s deportation czar, acting ICE Director Tae Johnson, told the House Appropriations Committee that they’d have to release illegals currently in custody in order to handle the coming surge.

Johnson said he’d requested “thousands more detention beds in the agency’s new budget, but higher-ups in the Biden administration rejected that idea.”

We can’t make this stuff up. We’re $32,000,000,000,000 in debt, and Team Biden is pinching pennies on our southern border.

For those of you who haven’t yet gotten sick of counting, we’re now at more than 6.3 million illegal crossings.

“Mayorkas,” reports The Washington Times, “did not offer specific numbers on border traffic, but a projection last year, ahead of a previous deadline for ending Title 42, said that as many as 18,000 illegal immigrants could cross per day.”

As the Times notes, “That would be nearly triple the amount that arrived each day in March.” And here we thought illegal border crossings were supposed to decrease as the temperatures increased.

As our Nate Jackson warned earlier this week: “Now that Biden reluctantly signed legislation officially ending the COVID emergency, Title 42 soon won’t even be a pretense in his way. Indeed, perhaps 40,000 migrants have gathered at the border ready to surge across once Title 42 is gone, and even the administration predicts that CBP encounters could reach 400,000 a month.”

Let’s see: an open border, easy admission, and free healthcare and other social services. What’s not to love if you’re an illegal immigrant? Well, except for the enslavement of children and the sex trafficking. But other than that?

“It’s like a concierge service for illegal immigrants,” said Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley last month. Clearly, these people don’t give a damn about illegal immigrants, except when it comes to converting them into wards of the state and reliable votes for Democrat-run Big Government.

Yesterday, Hawley picked up where he left off, and then some, roasting the smirking Mayorkas for his role in this pre-planned border disaster:

Secretary Mayorkas’ failed border policies have led to the indentured servitude of migrant children on a scale never seen in American history. Kids treated like slaves in factories. Smugglers collecting the profit. Mayorkas should be removed pic.twitter.com/naql0cTGsQ

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 18, 2023

“A moment ago,” said Hawley, “you were crowing about the fact that you treated children so well, and yet we find tens of thousands of children who are forced to work as slaves because of your policies. And you turn around and blame the prior administration. I am sick and tired of it, and thousands of children are in physical danger, danger because of what you’re doing. You should have resigned long ago, and if you cannot change course, you should be removed from office.”

“Secretary Mayorkas’ failed border policies,” Hawley tweeted, “have led to the indentured servitude of migrant children on a scale never seen in American history. Kids treated like slaves in factories. Smugglers collecting the profit. Mayorkas should be removed.”

Indeed, Mayorkas should be removed. We’ve been beating the drum about this disgraceful liar from the beginning, and we called for his impeachment just days after Republicans took control of the House, but with each passing week of inaction it appears more doubtful. Indeed, it appears that Mayorkas will be allowed to escape real accountability — unless and until House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his fellow House Republicans come to their senses.

Arguing that Republicans don’t have the votes to remove Mayorkas is correct on its face but utterly beside the point. Impeachment is a political act, and publicly shaming a terrible cabinet official is a worthwhile political endeavor, especially if it spurs voters to hold this administration accountable.

Think about it: Has there ever been a cabinet secretary more deserving of impeachment than this consistently willful abdicator of his sworn duties?

Of course, the dollar cost of this administration’s intentional catastrophe is incalculable. But so are the non-monetary costs. As we’ve written before: What price can be affixed to the change that the American fabric undergoes — over weeks and months and years and generations — when an influx of people unlike any in American history is forcibly distributed across the land by the Biden administration? Does our patriotism and our sense of Americanness grow stronger or weaker? Do we become more inclined to fight for our country or less so? More inclined to obey our nation’s laws or less so? More inclined to pay taxes or less so? More inclined to work or less so? More inclined to vote or less so?

Sadly, these questions answer themselves.