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Republicans are set to deliver articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate the same day Biden's border boss is slated to testify on Capitol Hill setting up a dramatic clash.
The articles of impeachment against Mayorkas for were passed in February and have been kept in limbo for months as the House has prioritized legislation for government funding, foreign aid and TikTok divesture.
Now, as Mayorkas is slated to testify at 10:00 a.m. before the House Homeland Security Committee on why his agency requires $108 billion in funding for the 2025 fiscal year, House Republicans will be readying the articles for delivery to the Senate.
The plan, as it stands, is for the 11 impeachment managers and several House employees to physically deliver the articles to the upper chamber at 2:00 p.m.
On Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson signed the articles of impeachment against the border boss, teeing them up for a delivery.
Speaker Mike Johnson signs the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday. Johnson has claimed about 9 million migrants have been encountered illegally crossing into U.S. under Mayorkas' tenure
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas' future in the position is unclear as the House has passed articles of impeachment against the man in charge of U.S. border security but the Democrat-held Senate is likely to acquit the charges against him
'The catastrophe at the southern border is the number one issue for the American people,' Johnson said in a statement Monday. 'We must hold those who engineered this crisis to full account.'
'While it will force him to grapple with the crisis his party and the President have created, Senator Schumer must hold a public trial on Secretary Mayorkas’ impeachment.'
'Pursuant to the Constitution, the House demands a trial,' the speaker continued.
How the Senate decides to handle the articles, however, remains up to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
There are many routes the Schumer could take in addressing the articles, including a trial, but the leader has yet to reveal how he wants to move forward.
Still, the Senate is expected to be sworn in as jurors for Mayorkas' impeachment on Wednesday.
And GOP senators previously said they would try to invoke points of order to set the ground rules for the impeachment, but whether they are recognized by the Democrat-held chamber is unlikely.
Republicans charge that Mayorkas has intentionally loosened restrictions around illegal immigration under the orders of President Joe Biden
The Republican-led House Homeland Security Committee has been investigating Mayorkas' mishandling of the U.S. border since last summer.
The committee released a five-installment report spanning from July 2023 to December 2023.
In January, Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., released an impeachment resolution with two individual charges against Mayorkas.
The impeachment articles said that Mayorkas 'refused to comply with Federal immigration laws' amid a record surge of migrants and that he has 'breached the public trust' in his claims to Congress that the US-Mexico border is secure.
After a late night vote passing the articles out of the committee on January 31, the resolution was teed up for a vote on the House floor.
A week later, the House voted 216-214 on the impeachment articles and the Republican-backed motion failed.
But a week later, on February 13, the House tried again and the articles of impeachment passed by a single vote.
'Secretary Mayorkas’ impeachment—the first of a sitting Cabinet official in U.S. history—indicates how seriously the House takes his refusal to comply with the law and his breach of the public trust,' Green told DailyMail.com in a statement.
'This historic vote followed a thorough, fair, comprehensive, and nearly year-long investigation conducted by the House Committee on Homeland Security into Secretary Mayorkas and his handling of the unprecedented border crisis.'
'The Framers of our Constitution gave Congress this grave authority when public officials choose to ignore the law and inflict grave harm on our constitutional order. The Democrat-led Senate must hold the trial, render a verdict, and hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable,' Green added.
Republicans say that Mayorkas has incentivized migrant to come across the U.S. border illegally because DHS has lessened penalties for doing so
A number of asylum seekers await transportation from Custom and Border Protection. In recent months thousands of migrants from China have crossed into the U.S. illegally
Following the passage of the articles in the House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office released a statement indicating that the articles would be promptly acted upon after the following a in-district work period.
But as that time came and went the House
