{"id":23539,"date":"2024-02-07T01:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23539"},"modified":"2024-02-07T01:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:10:50","slug":"house-committee-votes-to-advance-impeachment-case-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-to-full-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23539","title":{"rendered":"House committee votes to advance impeachment case against DHS Secretary Mayorkas to full chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A full House vote on impeachment could come as early as Tuesday.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Republican-led House Rules Committee on Monday voted 8-4 to send an impeachment case against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Homeland Security<\/a>&nbsp;Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A vote on the articles of impeachment in the House \u2013 which Republicans hold by a slim margin \u2013 could come as early as Tuesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The resolution affirms that Mayorkas &#8220;has willfully and systematically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws&#8221; by having repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security during his tenure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If the vote goes through, Mayorkas would be the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The impeachment articles charge that Mayorkas &#8220;refused to comply with Federal immigration laws&#8221; amid a record surge of migrants at the southern border and that he has &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; in his claims to Congress that the U.S.-Mexico border is secure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The secretary and supporters have repeatedly said that what&#8217;s happening is part of a worldwide phenomenon of people on the move seeking a better way of life and that the U.S. immigration system needs more resources and legislation to meet the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The secretary has called the Republican charges against him &#8220;politically motivated and completely baseless,&#8221; pointing to constitutional scholars who have weighed in with similar assessments. He said if it comes to a trial in the Senate, which generally follows an impeachment vote, he&#8217;s prepared to defend himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-committee-votes-advance-impeachment-case-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-full-chamber\">foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full House vote on impeachment could come as early as Tuesday. The Republican-led House Rules Committee on Monday voted 8-4 to send an impeachment case against&nbsp;Homeland Security&nbsp;Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote.&nbsp; A vote on the articles of impeachment in the House \u2013 which Republicans hold by a slim margin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[10316,21502,4601],"class_list":["post-23539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-full","tag-house","tag-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23553,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions\/23553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}