Lawsuit against Mayorkas advances

WASHINGTON (EFE).— Yesterday, the Republicans of the United States House of Representatives delivered to the Senate the accusation of impeachment against the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, the person in charge of Joe Biden’s government to manage the migration.

The process does not have much chance of succeeding in the Upper House, controlled by Democrats, but it gives a voice in Congress to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the most conservative wing of the Republican Party.

Congressman Mark Green read before the full Senate the indictment approved by the House of Representatives against the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for allegedly having refused in a “deliberate and systemic” manner to comply with immigration laws.

Lawyers and constitutional experts have pointed out that the Republicans’ accusations are based on “political differences” and do not meet the requirements established by law to initiate an impeachment trial to remove an official.

The leader of the Democratic majority of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, indicated the day before yesterday that his group plans to address the impeachment trial “as quickly as possible” to close the process as soon as possible.

The legal procedure stipulates that, once the articles of impeachment are delivered, the one hundred senators will act as members of a jury that requires a two-thirds majority to remove the secretary.

However, some Democratic senators have expressed interest in dismissing the case against Mayorkas without the trial even taking place, something that only requires a simple majority.