DHS Sec. Mayorkas calls impeachment against him 'baseless'

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas called the impeachment proceedings against him “baseless."

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas called the impeachment proceedings against him “baseless” and the accusations made against him by the Homeland Security Committee “false.”

“I will defer a discussion of Constitutionality of your current effort to the many respected scholars and experts across the political spectrum who already have opined it is contrary to law,” Mayorkas writes in a nearly seven-page letter to the committee. “What I will not defer to others is a response to the politically motivated accusations and personal attacks you have made against me.”

Mayorkas said the “false accusations” made by the committee “do not” rattle him and “do not” divert him “from the law enforcement and broader public service mission to which I have devoted most of my career and to which I remain devoted.”

The House Homeland Security Committee is set to vote on whether to send articles of impeachment to the House floor for a vote. It is likely to pass despite no proof there were high crimes and misdemeanors -- the usual bar for impeachment.