CBS News reports:
House Republicans are moving quickly on advancing impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. At Thursday’s hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee said, lawmakers will hear from an Arizona sheriff and people whose family members have died as a result of fentanyl overdoses or violent crime.
Republicans have repeatedly accused Mayorkas of failing to enforce the nation’s laws as a record number of migrants arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has criticized the impeachment effort as a “baseless” political attack and Democrats have argued there is no legal basis for impeaching Mayorkas.
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