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Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived the Holocaust. As deputy secretary, Mayorkas worked closely with Jewish groups and spoke often about the specific threats facing American Jews.
Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived the Holocaust.
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who is the 7th and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party , Mayorkas previously served as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, and the 6th ...
Alejandro Mayorkas onstage during President- elect Joe Biden’s introduction of his Cabinet nominees in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 24. ... But it was the Jewish cemetery that affected him the most ...
Mayorkas was born in 1959 to Jewish parents in Havana, Cuba. His mother, Anita, fled to Cuba from Romania during the Holocaust; his father Charles, was born to a Sephardic Jewish family that had ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born son of a Holocaust survivor, as Homeland Security secretary on Tuesday.National Jewish groups had sought the confirmation ...
Alejandro Mayorkas, nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security, is the child of Jewish refugees.
