The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.

House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary’s actions as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.

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      7 months ago

      Same thing that would have happened if this failed this vote, absolutely nothing. This is just the Republicans throwing a temper tantrum to drum up news coverage and to give the talking heads over on Faux News something to yammer on about for a while. Expect to see the headline “Crisis at the Border” used prominently by Faux for a while.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve been saying this from the start- they went after a non-white administration member first and that was a message.

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        The approval process, where white men sailed through while non-white women where put through the wringer with many of them not even making it, also delivered that message.