Immigration advocates celebrate Alejandro Mayorkas as Biden's pick to run Homeland Security
Immigration advocates celebrated the announcement that President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas, who previously served as deputy secretary of DHS under President Barack Obama, is the who fled Fidel Castro’s regime and arrived in the United States as refugees in 1960, less than a year after he was born. If confirmed, he would become the first immigrant and first Hispanic American to lead the sprawling department, which, among its various responsibilities, ...
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