Republicans impeached US President Joe
Biden’s immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on
the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key
issue in November’s election.

Conservatives in the House of Representatives, which is narrowly controlled
by Republicans, blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a
surge in illegal entries from Mexico that they have called a “humanitarian
catastrophe.”

Lawmakers passed two articles accusing him of “willful and systemic refusal”
to enforce immigration law and “breach of public trust” — making him the
first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years.

It was Republican leaders’ second swing at Mayorkas after they botched a
first impeachment effort last week by wrongly anticipating how many lawmakers
would be present on each side and losing by just one vote.

Tuesday’s re-run was just as close, but the return of Republican House
Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who had been receiving cancer treatment, swung
the chamber the other way in a 214-213 vote.বিস্তারিত