House blocks Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment resolution against DHS chief Mayorkas 

House lawmakers rejected an effort to force a vote on impeaching Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday, instead referring the resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the House Homeland Security Committee. 

Eight Republicans joined all Democrats in the 209-201 vote to send the impeachment resolution to the House panel, which is already probing Mayorkas over his handling of the crisis at the southern border. 

“Impeachment articles against Mayorkas have been collecting dust in committee for months. It’s time to move the vote to the House floor, not send it back to committee,” Greene argued in an X post moments before the vote.

Voting against the impeachment effort were Republican Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), John Duarte (R-Calif.), Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio).

Twenty-four lawmakers — 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans — did not vote on the resolution.

The lower chamber was forced to vote on Greene’s measure after she introduced it on the House floor Thursday as a “privileged resolution,” forcing leadership to take action on the legislation within two legislative days.

The Georgia Republican has accused the Biden administration Cabinet official of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for failing “to secure the border and protect States against invasion” by millions of illegal immigrants.

“The ongoing invasion at our southern border is a direct national security threat against the States and against the citizens therein,” she said on the House floor Thursday, reading from the impeachment resolution. 

Greene’s resolution also accuses Mayorkas of violating US citizens’ rights to protection from invasion, as affirmed in the Constitution’s Article IV Guarantee Clause, and ignoring the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

She further charges that Mayorkas has violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by “practic[ing] catch and release policies,” terminating contracts for border wall construction and scuttling the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico and Title 42 policies for migrant expulsion.

If the measure passed Monday, House lawmakers possibly would’ve debated Greene’s resolution and then voted on the articles of impeachment.