<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In USA, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the handling of the US-Mexico border. The vote was narrowly passed with 214 in favor and 213 against.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Conservatives blamed Mr Mayorkas for a surge in crossings of illegal migrants from the US-Mexican border.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">It was the second attempt to impeach Mayorkas. Last week's impeachment attempt failed, in the absence of Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who was receiving cancer treatment.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary's actions as they aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to media reports, the vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the move is considered symbolic, as the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate, where the Democrats are narrowly in the majority, is expected to abort it.</span></p>