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House Republicans unveiled articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandrop Mayorkas on Sunday.The articles, introduced by Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., accuse Mayorkas of “Willfull and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.” “Throughout his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas has repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security. In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States. His refusal to obey the law is not only an offense against the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States, it also threatens our national security,” Republicans allege in the first article.”Alejandro N. Mayorkas knowingly made false statements to Congress that the border is ‘secure,’ that the border is ‘no less secure than it was previously,’ that the border is ‘closed,’ and that DHS has ‘operational control’ of the border,” they allege in the second article.’SENSE OF HOPELESSNESS’: MICHAEL MCCAUL SOUNDS ALARM ON BORDER PATROL MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS House Republicans unveiled articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandrop Mayorkas on Sunday. (Screenshot)House Speaker Mike Johnson told fellow Republican lawmakers on Friday that he intends to hold a House-wide vote on whether to impeach Mayorkas “as soon as possible.”WATCH: MIGRANTS CLAIM ASYLUM ON COLD JANUARY NIGHT AS CBP UNION LEADER TALKS BORDER CRISISJohnson pointed out polling that showed illegal immigration as an increasingly urgent issue for American voters.”The facts show that President Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas have willfully ignored and actively undermined our nation’s immigration laws,” the speaker wrote in a letter to colleagues. “Rather than accept accountability, President Biden is now trying to blame Congress for what HE himself intentionally created.” House Speaker Mike Johnson told fellow Republican lawmakers on Friday that he intends to hold a House-wide vote on whether to impeach Mayorkas “as soon as possible.” (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)The Department of Homeland Security offered a response to the allegations on Sunday, arguing that Republicans failed to present evidence that Mayorkas has committed any “high crimes or misdemeanors.”CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS STRIKE DEAL TO PUNT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DEADLINESThe DHS argues the GOP effort has been a “cynical and hypocritical process” that was “predetermined from the start.””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 DHS said in a memo. A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over more than 2,000 migrants at a field processing center on December 18, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe GOP push to remove Mayorkas comes after years of skyrocketing illegal immigration under President Biden’s administration.Read the Full Articles of Impeachment Against Mayorkas BelowFox News’ Chad Pergram, Tyler Olson and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report
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