Reps. Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Mike Ezell, R-Miss., told Newsmax on Tuesday that Senate Democrats will refuse to hold an impeachment trial for Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas because they don’t want media to focus on immigration or the border.

Green, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee and is acting as one of the House impeachment managers, said on “Wake Up America” that Republicans will deliver articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, but noted that he doubts a trial will take place.

Sources told NPR that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to support a motion to dismiss the charges, which would only require a simple majority to pass. Another option for Senate Democrats is to send the articles to a committee for review, an act that would essentially kill the proposal.

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