WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson will delay sending the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as previously planned after Republican senators requested more time Tuesday to build support for holding a full trial. The sudden change of plans cast fresh doubts on the proceedings, the … Read more
MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas met Saturday with newly elected Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and discussed regional migration, security and the economy in the Central American nation, they said. The meeting at the Munich Security Conference came days after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Mayorkas for … Read more
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrowly avoided impeachment Tuesday, as the vote to oust him failed by a vote of 216-214. It had been 215-215, but a Utah congressman switched his vote from “yes” to “no” in the last moments before voting closed. Rep. Blake Moore, who was recently elected as vice chair … Read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) badgered a witness at a House hearing Thursday to coerce her into answering a leading question about the immigration crisis. (Watch the video below.) Deborah Pearlstein, a professor of law and public affairs at Princeton, was not on trial during Republicans’ impeachment hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. But … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that the ongoing Israel-Gaza war could inspire violence in the United States, a warning that comes as agents are tracking an increase in threats to Jewish, Muslim and Arab people in this country. “This is not a time … Read more