House GOP goes full steam ahead in Mayorkas impeachment, sets first hearing for January 10

A House committee has set the date for its first impeachment hearing into Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, escalating its push towards the Cabinet official.

The Homeland Security Committee, led by Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., will maintain its first impeachment hearing into Mayorkas on Jan. 10, the committee advised Fox News Digital.

Green advised Fox News Digital that for “almost three years, the American people have demanded an end to the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border, and they have also rightly called for Congress to hold accountable those responsible.”

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The House Homeland Security Committee has set the date for its first impeachment hearing into Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Images)

“That’s why the House Committee on Homeland Security led a comprehensive investigation into the causes, costs, and consequences of this crisis,” Green stated. “Our investigation made clear that this crisis finds its foundation in Secretary Mayorkas’ decision-making and refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress, and that his failure to fulfill his oath of office demands accountability.”

“The bipartisan House vote in November to refer articles of impeachment to my Committee only served to highlight the importance of our taking up the impeachment process – which is what we will begin doing next Wednesday,” he added.

Punchbowl first reported the date of the Mayorkas impeachment hearing.

DHS spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg advised Fox News Digital the “House majority is wasting valuable time and taxpayer dollars pursuing a baseless political exercise that has been rejected by members of both parties and already failed on a bipartisan vote.”

“There is no valid basis to impeach Secretary Mayorkas, as senior members of the House majority have attested, and this extreme impeachment push is a harmful distraction from our critical national security priorities,” Ehrenberg stated.

“Secretary Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security will continue working every day to keep Americans safe,” she added.

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If impeached, Mayorkas could be the first Cabinet secretary to obtain the black mark since 1876. (Screenshot)

The hearing – titled “Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas’ Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States” – will delve into how Midwestern states have been affected by the rising inflow of unlawful immigrants on the southern border.

If impeached, Mayorkas could be the first Cabinet secretary to obtain the black mark since 1876.

Fox News Digital has reached out to House Homeland Security Committee Democrats for remark.

Mayorkas has been in the sights of congressional Republicans because the disaster on the southern border spiraled uncontrolled.

Hundreds of 1000’s of migrants crossed into the U.S., with Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) sources final month telling Fox News Digital that there have been over 276,000 migrant encounters close to the top of December.

That quantity set a brand new file for crossings in a month.

Customs and Border Patrol sources final month advised Fox News Digital that there have been over 276,000 migrant encounters close to the top of December. (Fox News)

The earlier file was set in September when officers noticed 269,735 encounters. The quantity consists of unlawful immigrants encountered between ports of entry and migrants coming into at ports of entry by way of the CBP One app.

House Republicans have been looking for impeachment towards Mayorkas however have confronted an uphill climb in their quest.

In early November, the House GOP moved to question Mayorkas, solely to have the trouble tabled by eight Republicans who joined with Democrats.

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The defeat got here after Republicans upset conservatives and border hawks earlier in 2023 once they tried and failed to connect H.R. 2 – the House Republicans’ signature border safety and asylum overhaul laws – to a seamless decision to maintain the federal authorities open. 

Instead, the House ended up passing a “clean” persevering with decision, which in flip led to the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. In mid-November, the House handed one other persevering with decision to keep away from a pre-holiday season shutdown. That too didn’t comprise coverage riders, together with these associated to frame safety.

Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed reporting.