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House GOP Releases Impeachment Articles For Homeland Secretary Mayorkas

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. House Republicans are marching ahead with impeachment plans, their sights on Mayorkas as "derelict in his duty" over handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaker Mike Johnson gave his nod to Wednesday's hearing at the Homeland Security Committee.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House Republicans on Sunday released their articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The first article alleges Mayorkas participated in a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.”

The second article, in the chamber’s impeachment inquiry hearings, says he breached the public’s trust for his handling of the southern U.S. border amid record illegal immigration numbers.

Articles of impeachment for Mayorkas could likely pass in the GOP-controlled House. But the majority of senators would not vote in favor of impeaching Mayorkas in as Senate trial, considering Democrats control the upper chamber.

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