WASHINGTON (apro) – In a procedure that lasted three hours, the Democratic majority in the Senate of the United States Congress annulled the impeachment trial against the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Senate rejected the two charges approved by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, accusing Mayorkas of failing to comply with constitutional mandates to implement immigration laws and rules.
What happened in the Senate was an action announced from the moment that the Republicans of the House, also known as the Lower House, approved the charges against Mayorkas to subject him to impeachment, blaming him for the flow of undocumented immigrants.
The first charge against the head of the DHS, of non-compliance with immigration laws, was annulled with a vote of 51 votes in favor and 49 against 49, a result in which Republican Senator Lisa Murkowsky, of Alaska, joined the Democrats in their view that the impeachment trial was a farce orchestrated in the House of Representatives.
With 51 votes in favor and 48 against, the second charge of contempt was rejected, a procedure in which Murkowsky voted “present” and with this the impeachment trial was completely annulled and freeing Mayorkas from any responsibility for the immigration crisis.
The Republicans’ accusations against Mayorkas were based on the fact that from their perspective, the actions that President Joe Biden has taken regarding the control and processing of undocumented migrants from Central, South America and the Caribbean are a breach of immigration laws. .
Manipulated by former President Donald Trump, House Republicans were calling for Mayorkas to be removed from the Cabinet because he was allegedly opening the doors to undocumented immigration and neglecting border security.
Trump and Republicans want to repeal asylum laws for undocumented immigrants, treat them as criminals and carry out massive raids to locate, detain and deport these migrants.
“Validating this grotesque abuse by the House of Representatives would have been a serious error that would set a dangerous precedent for the future,” Schumer declared when concluding the process against Mayorkas that he had to carry out due to legislative rules.
During the three hours that the procedure lasted, Republican senators tried unsuccessfully to delay the vote on the two charges with which their colleagues in the House of Representatives had accused the Secretary of Homeland Security.
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2024-04-19 16:23:05