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Martin Pengelly in Washington

House Republicans to seek to impeach US homeland security secretary

Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas addresses the daily briefing at the White House in Washington in 2021.
A resolution to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas last November failed, but the crisis at the border has prompted Republicans to take up impeachment again. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

US House Republicans will seek to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security, alleging “egregious misconduct and refusal to enforce the law” in relation to immigration policy and the southern border.

In a statement to CNN on Wednesday, a spokesperson said the House homeland security committee had conducted “a comprehensive investigation into Secretary Mayorkas’s handling of, and role in, the unprecedented crisis at the south-west border.

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