Jayapal vows to dismantle DHS, impeach Trump officials if Dems win midterm
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
The press frames Rep. Jayapal’s vow as “accountability,” as if dismantling DHS is a tidy housekeeping project. It is not.
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If Democrats win back a House majority in this year's midterm election, Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is vowing to pursue accountability for President Donald Trump's aggressive and increasingly unpopular mass deportation campaign.
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The press frames Rep. Jayapal’s vow as “accountability,” as if dismantling DHS is a tidy housekeeping project. It is not. It is a choice to treat border enforcement and immigration law as illegitimate whenever the results offend progressive sensibilities.
What gets missed is the basic obligation of a government to control entry and remove those here unlawfully. An “aggressive” deportation campaign can also be a lawful one, and lawful enforcement is not cruelty by default. When media coverage leans on popularity metrics, it skips the hard question of public trust in a system that has been ignored for years.
DHS needs reform, but scrapping it to score ideological points risks institutional stability and national security. Impeachment-by-list is not oversight; it is politics masquerading as principle. The stake here is whether the rule of law remains durable, even when it is unpopular.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.