The House of Representatives on Monday voted to refer a resolution to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to a committee after Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene brought the measure last week.
Eight Republicans voted with Democrats to move the effort to the Homeland Security Committee, Politico reported. Mayorkas’s tenure has witnessed a marked uptick in illegal border crossings and Greene’s resolution had accused him of neglecting his duties.
“In his willful admittance of border crossers, terrorists, human traffickers, drugs, and other contraband, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas has failed to maintain operational control of the border, thereby violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006,” she wrote. “As Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has violated his oath to uphold this constitutional duty by allowing the invasion of approximately 10,000,000 illegals across our borders.”