The President of the US House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, signed the articles on Monday to begin the work of the Senate. impeachment trial of Alejandro Mayorkas, US President Joe Biden’s head of immigration.

Johnson announced that he will deliver the signed documents to the Senate Majority Leader this Tuesday. Democrat Chuck Schumer responsible for the trial of Mallorca in the upper house.

“Today I signed articles of impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas. Tomorrow they will be transferred to the Senate,” he said. Johnson said this in a post on X, accompanied by a photo of him signing documents.

“The border disaster is the number one problem for the American people. We must hold those who caused this accountable. “Senator Schumer, hold an open trial,” he added.

Republicans, majority in the lower houseapproved the impeachment charges against Mayorkas in February, The US Secretary of Homeland Security, who is held responsible for the increase in migration due to the alleged disregard of the border with Mexico.

Accusations “violation of public trust” and “systematic and deliberate failure to comply with the law” by failing to properly resolve the border situation between the United States and Mexico.

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Republicans are sending impeachment proceedings to the Senate as… Migration is at the center of the American political and electoral agenda.

The Senate will now become the arena for the impeachment trial, with 100 senators serving as members of a jury that needs a two-thirds majority to remove the secretary. something unlikely given that the Democrats are in control, as the journalist explained in February of this year Jesus Esquivel V Aristegui live.

In late March, Schumer’s office assured that “after the House impeachment managers submit the articles to the Senate, The next day, senators will be sworn in as jurors.”

Some senators have explored the idea of ​​dismissing the case even without a trial, something that only requires a simple majority.

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This second time the lower house sends a government secretary to an impeachment trial almost 150 years later. The only time this has happened before was in 1876, when then-Secretary of War William Belknap was indicted but later acquitted by the Senate.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)