The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel to discuss the history and impact of the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Should he have been impeached? Why was he impeached? What are the consequences of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to either hold a trial itself or to appoint an impeachment trial committee to take and consider evidence?

The panel featured Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who guided the impeachment resolution through the Committee and to ultimate passage by the House.

The panel also included George Fishman, the Center’s senior legal fellow who took a leave of absence to work on the impeachment inquiry as Special Counsel for the Committee on Homeland Security and Paul Taylor, the former Chief Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, who also served as Special Counsel for the Committee on Homeland Security to work on the impeachment inquiry.

Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, moderates this rebroadcast of the Center's panel.HostMark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Guests

Representative Mark Green, MD (R-TN) is the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

George Fishman is the Senior Legal Fellow of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Paul Taylor is the former Special Counsel for the Committee on Homeland Security and former Chief Counsel of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution.

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Panel Video

Panel Press Release

The Articles of Impeachment and Investigative Reports

Intro Montage

Voices in the opening montage:

• Sen. Barack Obama at a 2005 press conference.
• Sen. John McCain in a 2010 election ad.
• President Lyndon Johnson, upon signing the 1965 Immigration Act.
• Booker T. Washington, reading in 1908 from his 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech.
• Laraine Newman as a "Conehead" on SNL in 1977.
• Hillary Clinton in a 2003 radio interview.
• Cesar Chavez in a 1974 interview.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking to reporters in 2019.
• Prof. George Borjas in a 2016 C-SPAN appearance.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions in 2008 comments on the Senate floor.
• Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes".