Speaker Seeks DHS Impeachment

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said this week that he would seek the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “as soon as possible.” The announcement came after 2023 saw the highest number of migrants cross the southern border in the nation’s history.

There will be a meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday regarding the impeachment effort. Following that, Johnson said that there would be a floor vote in the House of Representatives following the meeting.

Mayorkas is facing accusations of a lapse of duty in his approach to the border, especially as the number of migrants crossing into the United States has increased.

Johnson said that a potential Senate immigration bill appeared unlikely. He also wrote that if “rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that she was “proud to have forced the floor vote on my Mayorkas articles of impeachment which now are being shaped and marked up in our Homeland Committee.”

We are going to impeach Mayorkas immediately.

I’m proud to have forced the floor vote on my Mayorkas articles of impeachment which now are being shaped and marked up in our Homeland Committee.

Now that 25 Governors are standing with Texas, the Biden admin must cease it’s… pic.twitter.com/2xqzivlmLn

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) January 26, 2024

She added that the House would “impeach Mayorkas immediately.”

More than two million migrants entered the United States last year, including more than 300,000 in the month of December alone. Both represent new record highs of migrant crossings. There have been millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 and appointed Mayorkas to his current role.

Furthermore, much of the migrant surge occurred after the Biden administration announced the end of the Title 42 asylum policy started under former President Donald Trump.

Furthermore, the impeachment vote also comes as the feud between the federal government and the state of Texas continues over border security. Texas has vowed to continue its border enforcement measures, even after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration over the deployment of razor wire.

This week governors of 25 states issued statements supporting Texas during the ongoing dispute.

Former President Donald Trump also weighed in on the matter, calling for the National Guards of different states to work with Texas to secure the border and deport migrants.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed to continue Texas’ measures and not to bend to the Biden administration’s handling of the issue.