The House Homeland Security Committee is marking up impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a hearing Tuesday, with an entire House vote possible as soon as next week.

The Republican-drafted resolution accuses Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” regarding immigration and charges him with “breach of public trust.” 

• Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said Tuesday the results of Mayorkas’s actions “have been catastrophic and have endangered the lives and livelihoods of all Americans” and that those actions “forced our hand,” CBS News reported.
  
  
• Committee Democrats have decried the effort. Ranking Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.) said “Republican members of Congress sworn to support and defend the Constitution are rejecting the framers’ clear intent, and over two centuries of precedent in favor of a sham impeachment.”
  
  
• Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, Mayorkas wrote a seven-page response to Green regarding the GOP’s allegations. Read more on that here. 

Remember: If the GOP-led House does vote to impeach Mayorkas, the effort is unlikely to go anywhere in the Democratic-led Senate, where two-thirds of members would need to vote to convict in order to remove him.

Members of both parties in the upper chamber are also currently working on crafting border security legislation with input from Mayorkas himself, though Republicans in the House have signaled the reported deal is dead on arrival.

Some interesting context, from The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch: “Mayorkas, the first Department of Homeland Security secretary to himself arrive to the U.S. as a migrant, would be the second Cabinet official to be impeached since the 1870s, following a secretary of War who took kickbacks.”