The House has impeached the Homeland Security secretary. Here's what you should know and what's next ( apnews.com )

The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.

House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary’s actions as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.

pozbo ,
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this whole situation has all the tact and self reflection as a standard issue Texas driver in their lifted dually rolling coal through a crowded parade (less than zero).

SteefLem ,
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Question: does impeachment mean anything, i mean they impeached trump twice i believe and still sat there till the end

Witchfire ,
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It has effectively become a political stunt unless one party controls both wings of Congress, at which point it will become a way to remove anyone they dislike for any reason

Serinus ,

Which is the point of this. They're running a twice impeached candidate.

Their purpose is to make impeachment a common, meaningless political stunt.

Revan343 ,

Impeachment is like being charged with a crime; removal is like being convicted. Trump was impeached, but not removed

baronvonj ,
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It goes to the Senate for "trial" to vote on removing Mayorkas from office.

OhStopYellingAtMe ,
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Fucking childish theatrics. He was impeached on no grounds.

FlyingSquid ,
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"Do something about the border!"

"Give us funding."

"No! Do something about the border."

"We can't without funding."

"We said no! DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE BORDER!"

"What would you have us do?"

"IMPEACHED!!!!!"

BrokenGlepnir ,

In the meantime texas physically bars them in some areas from doing their job.

jordanlund Mod , (edited )
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What happens next is it goes to the Senate for a dog and pony show and dies.

How much do you want to bet that they never would have impeached if he was named "Alex Mayor" and was born here instead of Cuba?

orclev ,

Same thing that would have happened if this failed this vote, absolutely nothing. This is just the Republicans throwing a temper tantrum to drum up news coverage and to give the talking heads over on Faux News something to yammer on about for a while. Expect to see the headline "Crisis at the Border" used prominently by Faux for a while.

FlyingSquid ,
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I've been saying this from the start- they went after a non-white administration member first and that was a message.

Heresy_generator ,
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The nomination approval process, where white people and men sailed through while non-white women where put through the wringer with some of them not even making it, also delivered that message.

FlyingSquid ,
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The fact that he got a black woman onto the Supreme Court floors me.

NocturnalMorning ,

Seems like kind of a waste of government time and resources.

thesystemisdown ,

For most, this would reflect poorly at review time. For some, this would invite a dismissal for performance or team cohesion issues. These folks wouldn't know anything about any of that.

nilloc ,

They saw a name with a silent J and voted with their (racist) gut instincts.

Viking_Hippie ,

And the understatement of the year award goes to..

FuglyDuck ,
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The guy that said “this is why we’re fucked.”

FlyingSquid ,
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Seems like kind of a waste of government time and resources.

The best way to prove your point that the government is too big and too dysfunctional is to make it too big and too dysfunctional.

anarchrist ,

I'm mostly disappointed in the Biden speechwriters. Mayorkas Malarky would be excellent branding for this.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary’s actions as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.

The House Homeland Security Committee has been holding hearings over roughly the last year where Republicans have repeatedly lambasted Mayorkas.

Witnesses have included an Arizona sheriff, families who have lost loved ones to the fentanyl crisis, experts on constitutional law, and former Homeland Security officials who served under former President Donald Trump.

U.S. House Republicans say the secretary is violating immigration laws by not detaining enough migrants and by implementing a humanitarian parole program that they say bypasses Congress to allow people into the country who wouldn’t otherwise qualify to enter.

But the Biden administration and supporters contend that the secretary is dealing with a wildly underfunded and outdated immigration system that only Congress has the power to truly fix.

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