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Alejandro Nicolas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American attorney and government official who was the seventh United States secretary of homeland security, serving from 2021 until 2025. A member of the Democratic Party , Mayorkas previously served as the director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013 ...
As of 2023, there have been 23 members appointed to the Cabinet of the United States who had been born outside the present-day United States. Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers who signed the U.S. Constitution, was the first cabinet member to be born outside of the United States. [1]
Mayorkas, often referred to as Ali, is the first Latino and the first immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security, one of the government's biggest agencies with 260,000 employees.
USCIS performs many of the duties of the former INS, namely processing and adjudicating various immigration matters, including applications for work visas, asylum, and citizenship. Additionally, the agency is officially tasked with safeguarding national security, maintaining immigration case backlogs, and improving efficiency.
Mayorkas did so after the greatest number of illegal border crossers, more than 14 million, were reported under the Biden administration ahead of the Trump administration preparing to implement a ...
Mayorkas, 64, was born in Havana and came to the United States as a 1-year-old when his family fled Cuba. ... Mayorkas served as director of U.S. citizenship and immigration services and deputy ...
Mayorkas said that the incoming Trump administration's critical rhetoric "misses everything that we have tried to do, and I view it as rhetoric that is a political and not substantive."
On November 23, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced his plan to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, who had previously served in the Obama Administration as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and later as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.