Mayorkas Must Face Consequences for Border Crisis, Republican AGs Testify in Impeachment Hearing

House Homeland Security Committee’s top Democrat accuses Republicans of making border security a political weapon.

Illegal aliens pass through a gap in the U.S. border wall to await processing by Border Patrol agents in Jacumba, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Three Republican attorneys general urged Congress to hold Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for the crisis at the U.S.–Mexico border—including by impeaching him.

“The American people are watching. They know that our border was secure just a few years ago,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in his written testimony for the House Homeland Security Committee’s first impeachment hearing against Mr. Mayorkas on Jan. 10.