Republican US House panel to push forward on impeaching border chief Mayorkas

A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives panel on Tuesday plans to debate impeachment charges against Democratic President Joe Biden’s top border official, a near-unprecedented move that comes as political tensions around immigration ramp up.
The House Homeland Security Committee will consider two articles of impeachment targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The charges allege Mayorkas intentionally encouraged illegal immigration with lax policies and violated public trust by making false statements to Congress.
Democrats have dismissed the impeachment effort as a political ploy and constitutional experts have said the policy criticisms outlined by Republicans do not meet impeachment’s high standard of misconduct. The only Cabinet member ever to be impeached by the House was former President Ulysses S. Grant’s
secretary of war William Belknap in 1876 following allegations of corruption. He was acquitted by the Senate.