House Republicans’ quest to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas threatens to dishearten the workforce and strain leadership at an agency perennially caught in political crosshairs.
The campaign against the secretary, whose efforts to bolster morale have earned him the moniker “Santo Mayorkas” among many workers, is distracting and potentially disruptive inside the agency, current and former Department of Homeland Security officials warn.
“If your job every day of literally protecting the nation was a political football and a political punching bag, you can see how that would be demoralizing,” said Jason Houser, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ...