A lame-duck Texas Democrat is forcing a House vote on impeaching President Trump over immigration enforcement — the latest bid to weaponize impeachment to obstruct the very border crackdown Americans voted for.
Rep. Al Green introduced a privileged resolution Monday that compels GOP leadership to bring the article to the floor within two legislative days. The resolution accuses Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors for deploying ICE and Border Patrol agents during Operation Metro Surge, a mission to apprehend and deport illegal immigrants. Green called Trump's enforcement actions a transformation of federal officers into "dangerous, unaccountable paramilitary police forces" and accused the president of "brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime."
The Deseret News reported that Green cited the deaths of four U.S. citizens during that operation, including Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who were killed in separate altercations with officers in Minneapolis. Fox News cited two such killings. Those deaths triggered a 76-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year — the longest single-agency shutdown in U.S. history — after congressional Democrats pushed back on the administration's immigration enforcement. Congress ultimately reopened DHS without funding ICE or Border Patrol; Republicans later passed a separate funding package for both agencies with zero Democratic votes.
Green has introduced impeachment articles against Trump at least three other times since his reelection. All failed. In June 2025, 127 House Democrats joined Republicans to quash a previous Green impeachment effort, according to Fox News. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has publicly distanced himself from impeachment, insisting Democrats are focused on kitchen-table issues like the cost of living. But Democratic leaders have signaled that if they take the House majority in November, a flurry of investigations into the Trump administration is on the way. Green insisted his colleagues shouldn't wait: "How many more lives must we lose, and how many more loved ones of victims have to plead for help before the self-evident evidence from videos and President Trump's own words compel us to act?"
Here's the tell: Green lost his primary this summer to a challenger calling for generational change. He won't be in Congress next year. This is a parting shot from a politician with nothing to lose, and GOP leaders can table or committee-referral the resolution to kill it without a recorded vote.
The pattern is clear. Impeachment once meant a last resort for genuine constitutional crises. Now it's a recurring procedural weapon deployed whenever this president enforces immigration law the way voters demanded. The 76-day DHS standoff, the defunding of ICE, and now another impeachment stunt — all aimed at the same target: stopping enforcement that the American electorate explicitly voted for. The question isn't whether this resolution dies. It will. The question is whether Democrats running for the House majority in November will have to own the party's blockade on border enforcement when voters render their verdict.
