Mayorkas

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas defended the Biden administration’s new asylum restrictions and consequences for migrants who cross the border illegally in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday. “Our intent is to really change the risk calculus of individuals before they leave their countries of origin and […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced an icy reception from Senate Republicans on Thursday, one day after the swift dismissal of the GOP impeachment case brought against him over his handling of immigration policy and the southern border. Mayorkas was on Capitol Hill to testify about President Joe Biden’s 2025 […]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arevalo (not in frame) at the Culture Palace in Guatemala City, on March 21, 2024. (Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — After voting in February to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern […]

Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s office said Tuesday that it will delay the transmission of two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — pushing the process’ start until next week. Johnson had said he would send the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday, which would immediately trigger […]

Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Tuesday will vote on a Republican-led resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border. The articles of impeachment accuse Mayorkas, long the target of GOP attacks when it comes to immigration policy, of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with […]

Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas called the impeachment proceedings against him “baseless” and the accusations made against him by the Homeland Security Committee “false.” “I will defer a discussion of Constitutionality of your current effort to the many respected scholars and experts across the political […]