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Deirdre Walsh

House Republicans start process to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is being singled out by House Republicans for the crisis at the southwest border, even as he works with Senate negotiators on a plan to change administration policy. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The House Homeland Security committee kicked off a series of hearings on Wednesday that could end with the panel approving articles of impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the top administration official tasked with overseeing the crisis at the southwest border.

"Secretary Mayorkas has brazenly refused to enforce the laws passed by Congress that knowingly made our country less safe. What we are seeing here is a willful violation of his oath of office by Secretary Mayorkas," Homeland Security Chairman Mark Greene, R-Tenn., said at the start of the hearing.

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