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Feb 11 2024
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Mayorkas defends Biden as 'sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented'
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday defended President Joe Biden and blasted a special counsel report that questioned the president's age and mental fitness as containing "gratuitous, unnecessary and inaccurate personal remarks." “The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and
NBC News (Online)Feb 07 2024
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House Democrats prepare to fight GOP encore on Mayorkas impeachment
House Democrats are trying to be ready for an expected second vote next week to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Why it matters: Their rare full attendance this Tuesday, along with three GOP defections, led to the shocking defeat of the first impeachment attempt. • One senior House Democrat told Axios they see "no reason to believe that we won't be at full attendance"
AxiosFeb 06 2024
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Full list of Republicans who voted against impeaching Mayorkas
House Republicans failed to garner enough votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, with four Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to keep him in power. Mayorkas has been targeted by Republicans in recent months as conservatives ramp up their attacks on President Joe Biden's handling of border security. The impeachment case accuses the secretary of
NewsweekApr 17 2024
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New Trump super PAC ad hammers Biden on immigration as Mayorkas faces impeachment vote
As Donald Trump spends much of the week in New York court, his super PAC is back on the air for the first time in over a month with a stark new attack ad in Pennsylvania that coincides with President Joe Biden’s visit this week and slams his immigration policies. Trump and his GOP allies have sought to thrust immigration to the fore of the 2024 campaign, hoping to capitalize on voter
CNN (Online News)Nov 14 2023
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House Rejects Impeachment of DHS Head Alejandro Mayorkas
On Monday, the House voted 209-201 to shelf a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Details: Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote against the resolution, with several others abstaining. The impeachment claimed Mayorkas was violating the 2006 Secure Fence Act by not maintaining “operational
National Review (News) CNBC AxiosFeb 13 2024
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House votes to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over border crisis
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been impeached by the House of Representatives.
A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached by the U.S. Congress since 1876.
Tuesday evening’s vote marked House Republicans’ second attempt at impeaching Mayorkas. GOP lawmakers targeted the Biden official over the ongoing migrant crisis at the U.S. border, accusing him of
Fox News (Online News)Jan 19 2024
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GOP calls for Mayorkas impeachment after mother's testimony
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.] All 18 Republicans on a key House committee support the impeachment and removal of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, an announcement that directly followed a hearing Thursday in which two mothers laid the blame for the deaths of their daughters at the feet of President Joe Biden’s appointee. “In my humble
WNDJan 28 2024
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House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on two articles
House Republicans plan to impeach President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on two articles in a historic committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned. The House Homeland Security Committee will take up articles of impeachment for Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with the Law and Breach of the Public Trust against
Washington ExaminerJan 30 2024
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House Panel Poised to Approve Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas
The House Homeland Security Committee is expected to approve articles of impeachment on Tuesday against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, as Republicans race forward with a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. In what is expected to be a party-line vote, the panel is poised to charge Mr. Mayorkas with refusing to uphold the law and breaching the
New York Times (News)Jan 31 2024
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House GOP faces pointed conservative criticism on Mayorkas impeachment
A growing number of conservative voices are encouraging House Republicans to drop their campaign to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing the GOP has not met the constitutional bar for removing him from office. Articles of impeachment for Mayorkas accuse him of violating immigration laws that require the detention of all migrants – something no administration has ever
The Hill