Impeaching Mayorkas over border crisis is justified — but pointless

House Republicans’ impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday was certainly warranted, but it’s a pretty hollow victory.

Mayorkas earned this badge of shame by overseeing a total breakdown of the border, refusing to follow immigration law and allowing millions of migrants into the US interior while repeatedly insisting the border was “secure.”

But it’s more symbolic than anything: Democrats will inevitably block any conviction in the Senate.

Nor would his conviction, and removal from office, change anything, because Mayorkas was doing what President Biden wanted (which is why it was the first impeachment of a Cabinet officer since 1876).

So what we have is a third impeachment by the House in five years, none of which stood a chance in the Senate.

Democrats took the first crucial step in defining impeachment down by rushing to impeach then-prez Donald Trump over that Ukraine phone call purely to satisfy a base furious that RussiaGate fizzled out, and treating even the second impeachment, over the Jan. 6 capitol riot, cavalierly.