The House Homeland Security Committee voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Mayorkas after a marathon 13-hour hearing. The vote was along party lines, 18-15. A full house vote will likely take place next week.
This is a rare event. No cabinet member has been impeached in over 150 years. Yet, that is how bad the Biden border catastrophe has gotten. Democrats on the committee tried to flip the script and blame Republicans for what is happening on the southern border. Chairman Green blamed Mayorkas for failing to comply with immigration laws already on the books.
Republicans on the panel charged that Mayorkas was guilty of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” as well as a “breach of public trust.”
“The facts are indisputable — for three years, Secretary Mayorkas has willfully and systematically refused to comply with laws enacted by…