Mayorkas impeached over US-Mexico border ‘crisis’ by Republicans who voted against the immigration bill
The US House voted Tuesday to impeach homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the US-Mexico border after failing last week in a politically embarrassing setback.
The evening roll call proved tight, with speaker Mike Johnson’s threadbare GOP majority unable to handle many defectors or absences in the face of staunch Democratic opposition to impeaching Mayorkas, the first cabinet secretary facing charges in nearly 150 years.
Continue reading…Mayorkas impeached over US-Mexico border ‘crisis’ by Republicans who voted against the immigration billThe US House voted Tuesday to impeach homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the US-Mexico border after failing last week in a politically embarrassing setback.The evening roll call proved tight, with speaker Mike Johnson’s threadbare GOP majority unable to handle many defectors or absences in the face of staunch Democratic opposition to impeaching Mayorkas, the first cabinet secretary facing charges in nearly 150 years. Continue reading…