CAPITOL HILL – House Republicans forged ahead Tuesday with a high-stakes impeachment vote for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It comes as border politics take center stage in a hotly debated immigration bill before Congress.
You’d have to go back almost 150 years to the last time a cabinet official was impeached by Congress in 1876. House Republicans hope to add Mayorkas to that list to underscore just how important defending the border is to the country.
They charged Mayorkas with two articles of impeachment, saying the Homeland Security secretary violated the law by allowing migrants to be released into the country, and lied to Congress about the situation at the southern border.
“Secretary Mayorkas thinks what he is doing is just fine, but he could not be more wrong,” said Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX). “Contrary to what the secretary says, the border is not secure. America is, in fact, less safe because of his negligence and because of his numerous failures.”
Another lawmaker said Mayorkas has done “exactly the opposite of what the federal law requires” him to do.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said, “The secretary of Homeland Security has blatantly ignored the laws of the United States he is
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