National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd discusses House Republicans’ impeachment articles against Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is predicting that not a single House Democrat will vote in favor of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the migrant crisis at the border. The House Homeland Security Committee is meeting Tuesday morning to advance two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas – one for “willful and systematic refusal to comply with the law,” and the second accusing him of a “breach of public trust.”
“I still can’t believe I had to force the floor vote on the House floor,” Greene told Digital. “I guess I can be thanking these Democrats and these eight Republicans now that those articles of impeachment were moved, that my articles were moved to Homeland because… Chairman Mark Green and the other Republicans on Homeland, having dealt face-to-face and gone through all the hearings that we did, with all the witnesses that we brought in…they had the will to impeach Mayorkas.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas. Greene had attempted to bring her articles of impeachment for a vote twice in November. They were referred to committee the first time, avoiding the actual vote. She was persuaded to back down the second time after being assured the articles would go through the committee process. The impeachment articles are likely to advance out of committee on party lines Tuesday. Then, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pledged a House-wide vote “as soon as possible.” Greene anticipated the impeachment articles will pass the House also along party lines, even with Republicans’ razor-thin majority, with no Democratic support.
“You would think with the situation as severe as it is… you would think that every Democrat, or at least some of the Democrats, would vote for this, but sadly, we’re not going to see any Democrats vote for it,” Greene said. An adviser to House GOP leadership credited Greene with pushing the impeachment resolution to the floor, arguing “she deserves a lot of the credit.”
Democrats have accused House Republicans of playing politics with the border crisis, including with the impeachment of Mayorkas. Mayorkas’ defenders have repeatedly pointed out that he is part of bipartisan talks in the Senate on a border security compromise. But House Republicans have criticized those talks, arguing that the resulting deal probably would not go far enough. They’ve also heaped skepticism on Mayorkas’ role in particular, claiming he cannot be part of a legitimate solution.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in a Sunday memo, “This markup is just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee (CHS) Republicans. They don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it. That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”
The impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by House Republicans is gaining momentum as the House Homeland Security Committee meets to advance two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas. The articles accuse Mayorkas of “willful and systematic refusal to comply with the law” and a “breach of public trust” in relation to the ongoing migrant crisis at the border. Despite the severity of the situation, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene predicts that no House Democrats will vote in favor of the impeachment. The impeachment articles are expected to pass the committee on party lines and proceed to a House-wide vote. Democrats have criticized the move as political maneuvering, while Mayorkas’ defenders highlight his involvement in bipartisan talks on border security. The Department of Homeland Security has accused House Republicans of playing games and undermining bipartisan solutions. This impeachment process has become a contentious issue that reflects the deep divisions in the US government regarding immigration policies and border control.
