{"id":42005,"date":"2024-02-13T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42005"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:57:33","slug":"house-republicans-voted-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-over-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/13\/house-republicans-voted-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-over-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, after an&nbsp;embarrassing failed attempt from House Republicans&nbsp;last week as they seek to make the crisis on the southern border a top 2024 issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mayorkas.jpg 1600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote passed mostly along party lines by a count of 214-213, with no Democrats supporting the effort and a few GOP lawmakers joining them. Until Tuesday evening\u2019s vote, the House had not impeached a cabinet secretary in almost 150 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crux of&nbsp;House Republicans\u2019 allegations against Mayorkas,&nbsp;whom they have long sought to impeach, is that the secretary deliberately and willfully allowed the crisis on the southern border to reach an extreme state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, after an&nbsp;embarrassing failed attempt from House Republicans&nbsp;last week as they seek to make the crisis on the southern&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[7555],"class_list":["post-42005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-house-republicans-voted-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-over-border-crisis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42007,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions\/42007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}