House Republicans released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday.
They contend Mayorkas is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for not securing the U.S. southern border. Republicans say the secretary’s actions amount to a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” on immigration and a “breach of the public trust.”
Impeachment is “Congress’s only viable option,” they said.Â
“Alejandro N. Mayorkas willfully and systemically refused to comply with the immigration laws, failed to control the border to the detriment of national security, compromised public safety, and violated the rule of law and separation of powers in the Constitution, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,” the impeachment resolution states.
The two articles mark the culmination of a roughly yearlong examination by Republicans of the secretary’s handling of the border and what they describe as a crisis of the administration’s own making.Â
Republicans contend that the administration and Mayorkas specifically either got rid of policies in place under Trump that had controlled migration or enacted policies of their own that encouraged migrants from around the world to come to the U.S. illegally via the southern border. They also accuse Mayorkas
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