The Washington Times learned that Republican staffers in the Capitol Hill were discussing a second attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, so as to prevent him from being re-elected.

Staffers claimed that their conversation had not reached lawmakers but acknowledged a desire for some gestures to demand accountability for the immigration disaster Republicans believe Mr. Mayorkas is responsible for.

“Staff members are discussing it,” said a Republican long-time aide active in immigration issues. “People are angry. “Every time you think that you have seen the most absurd thing possible, his department manages to top itself.”

In February, Mr. Mayorkas was the first Cabinet Secretary in U.S. History to be impeached.

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The Senate voted in favor of rejecting the case without trial.

Next year, the Republican-controlled Senate may be more committed to holding a trial. The chamber is partisan, so conviction, which needs two-thirds of the vote, remains a distant possibility.

A conviction may allow Senators to prevent Mr. Mayorkas from being re-elected, even if his term is over.

Emilio Gonzalez was the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which was part of the Bush administration’s Citizenship and Immigration Services, stated that Republicans’ demands for accountability fuel the impeachment talks.

He is the secretary of homeland security. He is the Secretary of Homeland Security. He is known as Mr. Border Security. He is responsible for all of it. “Nobody has been held responsible, and it is he who is accountable,” Gonzalez said.

He described the immigration crisis of the last few years as “the largest human-trafficking operation in Western Hemisphere history.”

The Biden administration will end on January 20. Congress has a little over two weeks between Jan. 3 when it takes office and Jan. 20, the day after they are sworn in.

There is precedent for pursuing impeachment when a public official leaves their office. House Democrats impeached Donald Trump in 2021 after he had left the White House, and in 1876, the House impeached William Belknap who had resigned from his position as war secretary.

In both cases the Senate did NOT vote to convict.

The Times has contacted Mr. Mayorkas’ office to get a comment.

Mark Morgan, the Customs and Border Protection director in the Trump Administration, said that the impeachment of Mr. Mayorkas was too political.

He said that he preferred that the Justice Department bring criminal charges of perjury against Mr. Mayorkas because he insisted that the border is “secure.”

Morgan told The Times that Morgan “intentionally misled the American public and hid the chaos, lawlessness and impact of our border on the safety and security of our country.” “He should be made accountable for these lies.”

Mr. Mayorkas is a veteran of the public sector, and he uses this experience in his combative sessions with Congressmen. He reminds members of Congress that he served as a federal prosecutor during the Clinton administration, then ran USCIS. Then he became Homeland Security deputy secretary under the Obama Administration and is now the department secretary.

He has oversaw the most chaotic border crossing in U.S. modern history. More than 10,000,000 unauthorized migrants have been encountered, and millions more are released into American communities under programs that he created to facilitate their arrival.

He defended his actions as an attempt to cool down the border. Critics claim he’s breaking the law.

The reviews of Mr. Mayorkas’s employees are mixed.

His orders have ruined the morale of Border Patrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Saint Ali is known as the “patron saint of administrative leaves” for giving paid leave to all 260,000 employees in his department as a free gift.

They celebrated on Friday his latest gift of two additional days to honor Thanksgiving. This brings the total for this year up to eight. The Times calculated that he had given away nearly $3 billion in extra time to employees during his tenure.