Sarah Palin joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama due to his inaction over the escalating crisis on the southern border, writing in a Breitbart op-ed Tuesday that the influx of young illegal immigrants "is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas,' the Washington Post reported.
Although Obama's harshest critics on the right have intensified their calls of impeachment over the new immigration crisis, such a step remains far-fetched especially when Democrats are currently in control of the Senate, CNN reported. In the blistering op-ed, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee accuses Obama of intentionally allowing immigrants into the U.S. and hampering American job opportunities.
"President Obama's rewarding of lawlessness, including his own, is the foundational problem here," she wrote. "It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment."
However, when asked to comment on Palin's comments on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner simply said, "I disagree." When pressed about others in his own House Republican conference that support impeachment, Boehner repeated, "I disagree."
"Palin, who still remains popular and influential with tea party activists and others on the right, is hardly the first conservative to accuse the President of unlawful activity," CNN reported. "But her pointed call for Obama's impeachment adds a high-profile voice to the crowd of Republicans pushing for congressional action over what they view as an overreach of executive authority."
The entire immigration crisis plays out against the backdrop of "an unfolding crisis on the Southern border, where unaccompanied Central American children have been showing up by the thousands, fleeing violence at home - an unforeseen development that both sides are trying to use to score political points," ABC News reported. "Obama says the flood of children at the border argues for the need for overhauling immigration laws while Republicans claim Obama's policies caused the problem."
Over the past couple years, other GOP politicians who have raised the issue of impeachment include Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.), Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.), Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), former congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) and Allen West (R-Fla.), and the South Dakota Republican Party.
