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Impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas. – April 17, 2024. On January 28, 2024, House Republicans indicated their intention to move forward with two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, alleging "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" in regards to federal immigration ...
Mayorkas, 64, was born in Havana and came to the United States as a 1-year-old when his family fled Cuba. He has served as secretary of Homeland Security since February 2021.
Mayorkas was the first Cabinet official to be impeached in nearly 150 years. The last time that happened was in 1876, when the House impeached Secretary of War William Belknap over kickbacks in ...
Once the Senate receives the articles of impeachment for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, it will decide whether he should be convicted and removed from office. But ...
On January 3, 2024, the United States House Committee on Homeland Security announced an impeachment inquiry into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. [1] On January 31, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee approved the articles along party lines for referral to the full House.
President Joe Biden will denounce the charge to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as an "unprecedented and unconstitutional" political attack that betrays the real challenge of ...
Alejandro Nicolas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American attorney and government official who is the 7th United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party , Mayorkas previously served as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, and the 6th Deputy ...
Mayorkas is the second Cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history after William Belknap, President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of war.