The United States House of Representatives has narrowly voted to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas after Republican politicians blamed him for unprecedented arrivals of migrants and asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border.Mayorkas has been accused of “willfully refusing” to enforce border laws and a “breach of the public trust”. This is the first time in about 150 years that a cabinet secretary has been impeached. The charges against him will likely be rejected by the Democratic-majority Senate.Here is more about Mayorkas’s impeachment, and what’s next.
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