The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administrationā€™s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.

House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretaryā€™s actions as theyā€™ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.

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    What happens next is it goes to the Senate for a dog and pony show and dies.

    How much do you want to bet that they never would have impeached if he was named ā€œAlex Mayorā€ and was born here instead of Cuba?

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      Iā€™ve been saying this from the start- they went after a non-white administration member first and that was a message.

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        The nomination approval process, where white people and men sailed through while non-white women where put through the wringer with some of them not even making it, also delivered that message.

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      Same thing that would have happened if this failed this vote, absolutely nothing. This is just the Republicans throwing a temper tantrum to drum up news coverage and to give the talking heads over on Faux News something to yammer on about for a while. Expect to see the headline ā€œCrisis at the Borderā€ used prominently by Faux for a while.