The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday night In favor of removal by impeachment or isolation To the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, In an attempt by the Republican majority to punish the Biden administration For managing the border between the United States and Mexico After failing last week in a similar attempt.
Mayorkas now The first Cabinet minister to be sacked in nearly 150 years. President Joe Biden called it “a blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that targeted an honorable public servant for playing petty political games.”
Mayorkas, who did not testify before the impeachment, The border crisis was attributed directly to Congress For their failure to update immigration laws during a period of global migration.
the Border security It has come to occupation A prominent position in election campaign issues, Donald Trump, the most likely Republican candidate to run for the presidency, insists that he will launch “the largest internal deportation operation in the history of the United States” if he returns to the White House.
The evening's roll call proved tight, with President Mike Johnson's razor-thin Republican majority unable to handle the matter Many deserters or absences In the face of determined Democratic opposition to Mayorkas' impeachment.
And still, in a historical rebuke, The House impeached Mayorkas 214-213. With Majority Leader Steve Scalise returning to boost GOP numbers after being away from Washington to receive cancer care and the impact of Easter Sunday on others, Republicans have bounced back. Despite the differences within their ranks.
To the Senate, at the end of the month
Charges against Mayorkas It will soon go to the Senate For trial, but neither Democratic senators nor even some Republicans You have shown interest in this issue It may be adjourned indefinitely in committee. The Senate is expected to receive articles of impeachment from the House of Representatives after it returns to session On February 26th.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for the case to be brought against Mayorkas “Fake political trial” And “a new low for House Republicans.”
In a frenetic spectacle of vote counting in the House, the GOP is trying to impeach Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border I took on an air of despair Politics as Republicans struggle to achieve their priorities.
Mayorkas He faced two articles of impeachment The Homeland Security Committee made the pretext of this They “deliberately and systematically” refused to enforce immigration laws Existing and He violated the public trust by lying to Congress and saying the border was secure.
But critics of the impeachment effort said the charges against Mayorkas amount to a political dispute over Biden's border strategy, which barely rises to the constitutional level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
With information from the Associated Press
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