Republicans unveil articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas
The GOP-led Homeland Security Committee plans to consider the charges this week, while DHS blasted what it called “unconstitutional, evidence-free impeachment."
WASHINGTON — House Republicans took a significant step forward Sunday in their effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by formalizing their allegations ahead of a committee vote.
Republicans allege in the first impeachment article that Mayorkas displayed a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law,” while the second article argues that he breached public trust by having “knowingly made false statements, and knowingly obstructed lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.”
“These articles lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment,” said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., in a statement.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a news conference at a Border Patrol station Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 8.John Moore / Getty Images“The results of his lawless behavior have been disastrous for our country,” added Green, who authored the impeachment articles.
The Department of Homeland Security responded Sunday with a memo saying Republicans “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.”
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