Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, a lame-duck lawmaker who just lost his primary, introduced fresh articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing the administration of turning immigration agencies into rogue forces.
The move revives Green’s long-running campaign to oust the president and comes as Democrats argue over how hard to attack Trump ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Green’s resolution seeks to impeach Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors “committed in violation of the president’s mandated oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the United States Constitution.”
It specifically charges the president with running U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “as his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces.”The resolution claims: “President Trump has used ICE and CBP to suppress the First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press; violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unlawful searches and excessive force; and defy the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection by allowing and encouraging racially targeted 7 arrests, unjustified detentions, and unjustified killings.”
This is far from Green’s first attempt.
He has repeatedly filed impeachment articles against Trump that collapsed under bipartisan rejection.
In June 2025, Green forced a vote on articles accusing Trump of failing to notify or seek congressional authorization before U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
That measure was tabled in a lopsided 344-79 vote, with most Democrats—including the entire Democratic leadership—joining Republicans to kill it.
During Trump’s first term, Green was the first Democrat to push impeachment articles to the floor over the 2017 Charlottesville events, long before party leaders were ready.
Green’s latest effort arrives after he was escorted from the House chamber during Trump’s February State of the Union address for holding a sign reading “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES,” a reference to a deleted AI-generated social media post
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