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Nov 23, 2020 · WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews, as his Homeland...
Mayorkas answers questions on the vetting of Afghan refugees. Recorded November 16, 2021. 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 ...
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Nov 23, 2020 · WASHINGTON ( JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews, as his Homeland...
Apr 20, 2024 · WASHINGTON (JTA) — Voting along party lines, the United States Senate buried impeachment proceedings targeting the Jewish Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. All 51 senators...
Jan 18, 2021 · Born in Cuba to Jewish parents and a mother who escaped the Holocaust, Mayorkas was raised in Southern California, painfully aware of the losses undergirding his family’s American success story...
Jan 20, 2021 · President Joe Biden announced Alejandro Mayorkas as his nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. If confirmed, Mayorkas will be the first Latino to head the department...
Feb 2, 2021 · WASHINGTON ( JTA) — 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...
