Read Full Impeachment Articles Against Biden Official Alejandro Mayorkas

House Republicans released impeachment articles against President Joe Biden's Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday.

Conservatives have been attempting to expel Mayorkas from office over his response to the massive influx of illegal migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. There were more than 2.4 million encounters at the southern border during the 2023 fiscal year, up from roughly 1.7 million in 2021, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Encounter data includes USBP Title 8 Apprehensions, Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissibles and Title 42 Expulsions.

In the impeachment articles offered by House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican, Mayorkas was accused of "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and "breach of public trust."

The articles also said that Mayorkas repeatedly violated immigration and border security laws in his tenure. "In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States," according to the documents.

In terms of the breach of public trust claim, the articles argue that Mayorkas "knowingly made false statements," including when he told Congress that the border is "secure" and "closed."

While Republicans have called the surge in illegal immigrants coming into the southern border a crisis, the Biden administration has veered away from that language. President Joe Biden told the press earlier this month that fixing America's immigration system is "a difficult challenge," but signaled that he is open to "massive changes" on border policy at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting at the White House last week.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called the impeachment attempt, "unconstitutional" and "evidence-free" in a statement shared with Newsweek on Sunday afternoon.

"This markup is just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee (CHS) Republicans. They don't want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it" the DHS said. "That's why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas."

The DHS has maintained that no high crimes or misdemeanors have been committed under the Biden administration to warrant impeachment articles.

The House Homeland Security Committee will review the impeachment articles on Tuesday. If the articles are approved by the committee, it will be moved to the floor for a vote. If a simple majority votes to impeach, the matter will go to the Senate for a trial.

"These articles lay out a clear, compelling and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's impeachment," Green said in a statement.

Newsweek reached out to Green's office via email for comment.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who is a staunch critic of Biden's border policies, celebrated the articles of impeachment on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.

"This is happening because I forced a floor vote on my Mayorkas articles of impeachment back in November and Democrats and 8 Republicans voted to move my articles to our Homeland Security Committee giving us jurisdiction," the congresswoman wrote in her post.

Greene, who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, added: "I want to report I am pleased with our collective effort shaping my articles of impeachment to our final version that we will be marking up and voting out of committee on Tuesday."

Read the full articles of impeachment here:

Update 1/28/24, 11:53 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.

Update 1/28/24, 1:18 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional comment from DHS.