WASHINGTON – Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was warned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday will send articles of impeachment against House Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the upper chamber on April 10.
Johnson and 11 GOP-appointed impeachment managers said in a letter to Schumer that they would present “duly adopted articles of impeachment” against Mayorkas the day the Senate returns to session.
“We urge you to quickly set a judgment on this matter,” the letter to Schumer said.
The GOP-controlled House on February 13, he voted for the impeachment of Mayorkas “High crimes and misdemeanors, including willful and systematic disobedience to the law and breach of public trust,” the letter said.
“The evidence on both charges is clear, comprehensive and convincing,” they said. Mayorkas is the second cabinet member to be impeached US history after William Belknap, Secretary of War under then-President Ulysses S. Grant.
They alleged that Mallorcas violated US immigration laws and was “responsible for allowing millions of illegal aliens into the interior and creating illegal mass parole programs.” The lawmakers also accused the DHS secretary of lying to Congress and the public “about the extent of the crisis and his role.”
Addressing the migrant situation at the US-Mexico border, Johnson and impeachment managers said Americans “demand a secure border, an end to this crisis and accountability for those responsible.”
NBC News has reached out to Schumer’s office for comment.
This is an evolving story.
Rebecca Kaplan contributed.