The U.S. House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish The Regime over its handling of the U.S-Mexico border after failing to do so last week.

This from newsmax.com.

The evening roll call proved tight, with Speaker Mike Johnson’s threadbare GOP majority unable to handle many defectors or absences in the face of staunch communist/globalist opposition to impeaching Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary facing charges in nearly 150 years.

In a historic rebuke, the House impeached Mayorkas 214-213. With the return of Majority Leader Steve Scalise to bolster the GOP’s numbers after being away from Washington for cancer care and a Northeastern storm impacting some others, Republicans recouped—despite dissent from their own ranks.

Joe Biden foolishly said in a toothless statement released after the vote:

History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.

The GOP effort to impeach Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border has taken on an air of urgency as Republicans aim to make good on their priorities.

Mayorkas faced two articles of impeachment filed by the Homeland Security Committee arguing that he “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce existing immigration laws and that he breached the public trust by lying to Congress and saying the border was secure.

But critics of the impeachment effort said the charges against Mayorkas amount to a policy dispute over The Regime’s border policy, hardly rising to the Constitution’s bar of high crimes and misdemeanors.

The House had initially launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden over his son’s business dealings, but instead turned its attention to Mayorkas after Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia pushed the debate forward following the panel’s months-long investigation.

The charges against Mayorkas would next go to the Senate for a trial, but neither communist/globalist nor Republican senators behind Turtle McConnell have shown interest in the matter and it may be indefinitely shelved to a committee.

Contrarily, however, border security has shot to the top of campaign issues, with President Trump, the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, insisting he will launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” once he retakes the White House.

Various House Republicans have prepared legislation to begin deporting migrants who were temporarily allowed into the U.S. under [The Regime’s] policies, many as they await adjudication of asylum claims.

Trump said in stark language at a weekend rally in South Carolina:

We have no choice.

At the same time, Johnson rejected a bipartisan Senate border security package because it contained more that was inappropriate than appropriate. Meanwhile, the Republicans have not been able to launch their own proposal which is a nonstarter in the Senate.

Mayorkas is not the only [Regime] official the House Republicans want to impeach. They have filed legislation to impeach a long list including Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Never before has a sitting Cabinet secretary been impeached, and it was nearly 150 years ago that the House voted to impeach President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of war, William Belknap, over a kickback scheme in government contracts. He resigned before the vote.

Mayorkas, who did not appear to testify before the impeachment proceedings, irrationally put the border crisis on Congress for failing to update immigration laws during a time of global migration.

Mayorkas said over the weekend on NBC:

There is no question that we have a challenge, a crisis at the border. And there is no question that Congress needs to fix it.

Johnson and the Republicans have pushed back, arguing that The Regime could take executive actions, as Trump did, to stop the number of crossings—though the courts had questioned and turned back some of those efforts.

But if The Regime really wanted to take necessary action, far be it for them to allow a court to stop them. Their extra-constitutional behavior abounds.

Tuesday’s vote was something of a face saver for the Republicans following last week’s failed vote to impeach Mayorkas, however, that failed vote was not a total loss. One of the RINO holdouts—Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin—announced over the weekend he would not be seeking reelection in the fall, joining a growing list of RINOs feeling the MAGA squeeze.