House Republicans push toward historic impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

House Republicans are set to take a vote Tuesday that would bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to a historic impeachment.

House Republicans are set to take a vote Tuesday that would bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to a historic impeachment over his handling of the southern border.

The GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee is set to discuss and ultimately vote on the impeachment articles against Mayorkas in a hearing on Capitol Hill after Republicans said the secretary has failed to enforce the law at the southern border allowing a flood of migrants in.

It is likely to pass in committee and move on to the House floor for a vote despite Democrats saying there's no proof of high crimes and misdemeanors -- the usual bar for impeachment. If the vote to impeach passes in the House, it forces a Senate trial.

If Mayorkas were to be impeached, it would be first of a Cabinet member in nearly 150 years. Only one Cabinet secretary has ever been impeached by the House: William Belknap, who resigned as then-President Ulysses Grant's secretary of war shortly before the House voted against him in 1876.