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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is sworn-in before the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing on "A Review of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mayorkas feuds with GOP as Senate begins long-delayed impeachment

By Ramsey Touchberry and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during a mark up business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘I don’t hate you’: Sen. Kennedy and other GOP lawmakers unload on Mayorkas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas takes part in a joint news conference with the Guatemalan president, at the National Palace in Guatemala City, March 21, 2024. Speaker Mike Johnson will delay sending the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as planned. Republican senators requested more time Tuesday to build a case for a full trial.(AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

House GOP delays delivery of Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate

By Ramsey Touchberry and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is shown in this undated file photo. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Schumer vows to crush Mayorkas impeachment trial

By Ramsey Touchberry and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the border illegal immigration crisis illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

To save America, Mayorkas must be tried and convicted

By Rep. Harriet Hageman

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

White House declares Mayorkas impeachment trial ‘complete waste of time’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks to the media during a press conference on the border, Sept. 27, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Blackburn: Americans should be ‘incensed’ by Senate plan to kill Mayorkas impeachment articles

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Jordan subpoenas Mayorkas for ICE documents

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as he and others appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on online child safety on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Washington. Sen. Cruz introduced a bill Tuesday that would block Federal Air Marshal Service agents from going to the southern border unless Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas verifies that a border crisis exists. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Sen. Cruz calls for ban on air marshals at border unless Mayorkas admits to crisis

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

House impeachment and Senate trial illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Blocking impeachment trial would put Schumer’s majority in grave danger

By David N. Bossie

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Biden's supplemental funding request, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Accusers must show Mayorkas went beyond maladministration; Impeachment raises bar to ‘high crimes’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Mayorkas deserves removal

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas arrives to a news conference about security for NFL's Super Bowl 58 football game, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mayorkas gets the impeachment black mark he deserves

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Mayorkas impeached: House makes history with vote to embarrass DHS secretary

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through Statuary Hall as lawmakers gather in the House chamber to vote on the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failures on the U.S.- Mexico border at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House GOP will try again to impeach Mayorkas after failing once. But outcome is still uncertain

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The mayor of Eagle Pass, a Texas border city that's at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings, accused the state Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, of a new escalation, saying state troopers closed a large public park along the Rio Grande without asking permission. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

DHS Secretary Mayorkas on border crisis: ‘We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., speaks to reporters after Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the GOP whip, dropped out of the speaker race, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. A special House committee focused on China is calling for altering the way the U.S. treats Chinese-made goods, possibly subjecting them to higher tariffs even if its risks increased tensions between the two economic superpowers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican Gallagher, who voted against impeaching Mayorkas, to leave Congress

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., speaks during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) ** FILE **

GOP chairman calls Mayorkas a ‘reptile,’ White House sees antisemitism

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the homeland, Oct. 31, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Mayorkas avoids impeachment as House Republicans fail to muster votes

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House Republicans are ready to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, if they have the votes

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press