Democratic Party leaders, top advocacy organizations and even centrist lawmakers in Congress are calling for the Homeland Security secretary to step aside. “The country is disgusted by what the Department of Homeland Security has done,” top House Democratic Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Pete Aguilar of California said in a joint statement. She should be out of a job,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.“I think the President needs to look at who he has in place as a secretary of Homeland Security,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. To be sure, Homeland Security still has strong defenders in the Congress. Two years ago, the Republican-led House impeached another Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, in protest over the then-Biden administration’s border security and immigration policies that allowed millions of immigrants and asylum seekers to enter the U.S.