In the first week of the new GOP-led House, a Texas Republican has filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
, a policy implemented near the start of the Covid pandemic that allowed U.S. authorities to turn asylum-seekers away at the border.
“It is unfortunate that we have gotten to this point, but it is necessary," Fallon said in a statement."Secretary Mayorkas’s potential impeachment is not an accident. He has willfully abdicated his duties as Secretary of Homeland Security and actively misled Congress and the American people. To make any progress at our southern border, he must go.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., then the House minority leader, called on Mayorkas to resign in November, saying he had failed to secure the southern border. Appearing with other GOP lawmakers in El Paso, Texas, McCarthy warned at the time that House Republicans would launch an investigation if Mayorkas refused to resign and would consider impeachment proceedings.whether he was prepared for any GOP-led investigations, Mayorkas said:"I am. I will be.
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