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     • Secretary Mayorkas is the first immigrant to serve in the role of DHS Secretary. His parents arrived with him and his sister to the United States as refugees after fleeing Cuba in 1960.
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   What did Mayorkas do for a living?

   • Mayorkas also negotiated cybersecurity and homeland security agreements with foreign governments, led the department's response to Ebola and Zika, helped build and administer the Blue Campaign to combat human trafficking and developed an emergency relief program for orphaned youth following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

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   • Here's Where Assistance Plans Stand Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba, and was the highest-ranking Cuban American to serve in the Obama-Biden Administration. His family brought him to the Los Angeles area when he was an infant.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alejandro_MayorkasAlejandro Mayorkas - Wikipedia

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   Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959. When he was one year old, his parents fled with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution.

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   Jan 18, 2021 · The family of Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s pick to head DHS, fled the Nazis and then Cuba before arriving in the United States

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   6 days ago · Alejandro Mayorkas is the secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security (2021– ). In 2024 he became just the second presidential cabinet member to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Mayorkas is a former federal prosecutor and served in other high-ranking federal positions during President Barack Obama’s ...

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   Nov 23, 2020 · President-elect Joe Biden has made Alejandro Mayorkas the first Latino and immigrant nominated to serve as the Department of Homeland Security Secretary.

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   Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security by President Biden on February 2, 2021. A political refugee born in Havana, Cuba, Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.

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   May 12, 2021 · How Alejandro Mayorkas handles his role atop the Department of Homeland Security will define much about how the world sees America, and America sees itself, in the post-Trump moment.

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    Mayorkas understands the immigrant experience. Mayorkas’s family immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 as political refugees when he was one year old after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. Previously, Mayorkas’s Romanian Jewish mother fled Romania for Cuba during the Holocaust.