As House Republicans prepare to hold a majority in the next Congress, some are planning to follow through on their promise to investigate and impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the United States-Mexico border. Republicans have long threatened to impeach Mayorkas, and as January approaches, the state of the border is becoming increasingly complex as diverse populations of people are arriving and the Biden Administration faces the end of a controversial Trump-era policy that largely prevented most people from making asylum claims. “Our country may never recover from Secretary Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Nov.