The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is defending his job performance amid an illegal immigration crisis unprecedented in American history.
In an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace on Friday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas rejected demands by congressional Republicans for his resignation, according to Homeland Security Today, a nonprofit that covers security issues.
“Number one, I’m not going to resign,” Mayorkas told Wallace on CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”

Several Republican lawmakers have floated Mayorkas as a target for impeachment, citing the torrent of illegal immigration penetrating the southern border.
DHS has hired private attorneys to represent the department and Mayorkas personally in congressional proc …