Republicans solidified the House 's plans to impeach Sec. by scheduling a committee vote on the resolution for later this month - as grieving mothers tore into his leadership of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 

The Homeland Security Committee will mark up the resolution on January 31, then putting it before the full House for a vote. 

It comes as Democrats slam the impeachment efforts as a 'MAGA spectacle' and a  'pre-determined, pre-planned, partisan stunt,' as top Homeland Security  Bennie Thompson, Md., put it in the final Mayorkas impeachment hearing. 

The committee brought in two grieving mothers who had lost daughters - Tammy Nobles, whose daughter was killed by an unlawful immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member, and Josephine Dunn, whose daughter died at 26 after taking what she thought was oxycodone but was actually fentanyl.

Nobles told the story of her autistic daughter's death in graphic detail.

'My newly 20 year old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered in her own room and left on the floor like trash. The illegal MS-13 known gang member brutally raped and murdered my daughter by strangling her with a cord and robbed her of $6.' 

Nobles claimed the Department of Homeland Security failed to check the El Salvador national for gang-related tattoos or check with the El Salvador government  to see if he was on a known gang list. 

Tammy Nobles lost her 20-year-old daughter after she was strangled by an MS-13 member 

Josephine Dunn's daughter died at 26 after taking what she thought was oxycodone but was actually fentanyl

The suspect is now in custody and has been charged with first degree murder, rape and robbery. 

Meanwhile a teary-eyed Dunn tore into Mayorkas for not appearing at the hearing. 

'I flew from Arizona to meet him and face him and ask him why. And he's not here today. I did not know that until after I landed yesterday,' she said.

'He doesn't have a decency now to even show up. That is crap. And talk to you personally. Today is my daughter's birthday. I would have much rather been home with my poor husband grieving her. I didn't need to be here today. So whatever he's doing, I hope it's more important than that.'

Meanwhile GOP Chairman Mark Green insisted that Mayorkas had rejected testifying before the committee, after yesterday floating a contempt resolution for the secretary. 

Mayorkas was not subpoenaed to testify but invited. He was unable to make it due to a meeting with Mexican leaders on migration. 

'Secretary Mayorkas has testified before

more than any other cabinet secretary,' noted Thompson. 'I can't help but wonder if Republicans are getting a bit desperate.' 

But more and more Republicans are seemingly on board with impeaching the Homeland Security secretary. 

'He's violated his oath. He's violated the public trust,' Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said during the hearing. 'It's been a dereliction of duty of the grossest proportions I've seen in my 25 years of dealing with this border.'

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., took a shot at Senate-led negotiations on a deal that would include border security provisions, Ukraine and Israel aid.

'This body should be discussing massive military aid to Texas, not to Ukraine,' he said. 

The Homeland Security Committee will mark up the resolution to impeach Mayorkas on January 31, then putting it before the full House for a vote

A U.S. National Guard soldier stands on a shipping container as a group of migrants attempt to go through a concertina wire fence on the bank of the Rio Grande river in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.

S., January 17

Grieving mothers blamed Mayorkas' DHS for the death of their daughters 

Kayla Hamilton, 20, of Aberdeen, Maryland, was allegedly raped and killed by a suspected MS-13 gang member, who was previously arrested at the border as an unaccompanied minor

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas, said Republicans had brought the grieving mothers to Capitol Hill 'under the false pretense that impeaching mayorkas would be in any way prevent what happened to their children from happening to someone else's.

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Impeaching Mayorkas 'may not be the solution that they seek,' she said. 

Meanwhile witness Deborah Pearlstein, Law and Public Affairs professor at Princeton, made the case against impeaching the secretary. 

'Policy differences could be addressed through elections,' Pearlstein said. 'Impeachment was to be, largely has been, a last-ditch mechanism to address offenses against constitutional democracy by a single individual that can't be adequately addressed your ordinary channels.'

Meanwhile a group of 26 former national security officials, including those that served in DHS under Trump, signed on to a letter earlier this week insisting it would be a 'grave mistake' to impeach Mayorkas.

'Initiating such proceedings not only threatens to undermine national security but sets a perilous precedent that could have dire implications for the stability of our government,' they wrote. 

'Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas would only serve to distract from the pressing need to implement effective policy solutions to rectify our immigration system and fortify America's national security.'