IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 470 
Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, 
for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2023 
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of 
Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, is impeached for high crimes 
and misdemeanors and that the following articles of im-
peachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: 
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
America, against Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary 
of Homeland Security, in maintenance and support of its 
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impeachment against him for high crimes and mis-
demeanors. 
ARTICLE I 
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, in his conduct as Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, has engaged in a pattern 
of conduct that directly violates his constitutional oath as 
an executive officer of the United States in the following 
manner: 
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas was confirmed and 
sworn in as the Secretary of Homeland Security of the 
United States of America on February 2, 2021. Secretary 
Mayorkas took a solemn oath, as stated in section 3331 
of title 5, United States Code, to ‘‘support and defend the 
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, for-
eign and domestic’’ and to ‘‘well and faithfully discharge 
the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So 
help me God.’’ 
As the Secretary of Homeland Security, a cabinet- 
level official established by the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (Public Law 107–296), Secretary Mayorkas is vest-
ed with the duty to advise the President on decision mak-
ing critical to the safety and security of the United States. 
Secretary Mayorkas, with his 30-year career as a law en-
forcement official, is entrusted by the President to uphold 
the mission of the Department of Homeland Security as 
dictated by statute and ensure the constitutionality, legal-
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ity, and efficacy of executive policy in service of such mis-
sion. 
Section 4 of Article IV of the Constitution mandates 
that the Federal Government ‘‘shall guarantee to every 
State in this Union a Republican Form of Government 
and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on 
Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when 
the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Vio-
lence.’’ 
Further, section 2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 
2006 (Public Law 109–367) legally obligates the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security ‘‘to maintain operational 
control over the entire international land and maritime 
borders of the United States.’’ Specifically, ‘‘operational 
control’’ is defined as ‘‘the prevention of all unlawful en-
tries into the United States, including entries by terror-
ists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, nar-
cotics, and other contraband.’’ This ‘‘operational control’’ 
standard codified the well-established, good-faith efforts of 
securing land and maritime borders to preserve the sov-
ereignty of the United States. 
Secretary Mayorkas is legally bound, by constitu-
tional duty and sworn oath, to protect the individual 
States of this Republic and the citizens therein from 
threats to our Nation’s homeland. He has failed, beyond 
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