House Republicans sent their two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday.
Republicans in the House voted to impeach Mayorkas in February over his handling of the southern border by a narrow margin after failing to do so on their first try. Mayorkas is the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years.
The impeachment managers — Reps. Michael McCaul of Texas, Mark Green of Tennessee, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Ben Cline of Virginia, Michael Guest of Mississippi, Andrew Garbarino of New York, August Pfluger of Texas, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, and Laurel Lee of Florida — did the procedural march to the Senate to deliver the articles.
“The managers on the part of the House of Representatives are present and ready to present the articles of impeachment, which have been preferred by the House of Representatives, against Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,” Green said as the managers entered the upper chamber.
The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to quickly dismiss the charges without a trial, or conduct a speedy trial that results in no conviction.
