As House Republicans are set to vote Tuesday on their long-gestating impeachment articles for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden will preempt the maneuver with a strongly worded condemnation of his own a day prior.
Biden will denounce GOP actions on Monday as an "unprecedented and unconstitutional" political attack that betrays the real challenge of securing the southern U.S. border, according to a statement of administration policy initially shared with NBC News.
"From his time in the Justice Department as a U.S. attorney to his service as deputy secretary and now secretary of Homeland Security, he has upheld the rule of law faithfully and has demonstrated a deep commitment to the values that make our nation great," Biden will say. "Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas would be an unprecedented and unconstitutional act of political retribution that would do nothing to solve the challenges our nation faces in securing the border."
Republicans have been pushing for an impeachment of Mayorkas as far back as 2021, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., introduced articles to force Mayorkas out of office. Republicans contend that the situation at the southern border has reached crisis status with over 3 million illegal border crossings in 2023 alone, according the Homeland Security’s own findings.
The House Rules Committee is expected to advance the most recent measure on Monday for a final vote on Tuesday.
The impending Mayorkas impeachment vote comes on top of the newly unveiled Senate border security bill that House Republicans say would "incentivize more illegal immigration."
Former President Donald Trump weighed in as well this week saying, in a post on Truth Social, that "only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day."
"We already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done," he continued.
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