What's really behind Kevin McCarthy's push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

As Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) struggles to achieve detente between the fractious wings of his caucus, the House minority leader and aspiring speaker visited El Paso, Texas, this week to offer a glimpse of what to expect from the incoming Republican congressional majority he hopes to lead: aggressive action against the Biden administration's immigration policies — and in particular, against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

"His actions have produced the great wave of illegal immigration in recorded history," McCarthy said during a press conference along the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday. "This is why today I am calling on the secretary to resign."

"If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure, to determine whether we can begin an impeachment inquiry," he added.

While McCarthy had already telegraphed the GOP's renewed focus on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections, Tuesday's threat of potential impeachment for Mayorkas is a significant — and pointed — escalation in the Republicans' broader push to restrict migration across the southern border. It represents a punitive action aimed at the Biden administration, rather than simply a legislative proposal to address immigration as a whole.

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