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Biden picks Alejandro Mayorkas, a son of Jewish Cuban refugees, to lead the Department of Homeland Security

Alejandro Mayorkas, shown in July 2013 when he was President Barack Obama’s nominee to become deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. President-elect Joe Biden is filling out his administration with key picks for his national security and foreign policy teams, and Mayorkas will be nominated to lead DHS.

The son of Cuban Jews who fled Fidel Castro’s 1959 Revolution, Mayorkas would be the first immigrant and first Hispanic American to lead DHS if the GOP-controlled Senate confirms him. Mayorkas’s first public statement after the announcement was an indication that immigration, for him, is deeply personal. - - As of 04/24/2022: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/biden-dhs-alejandro-mayorkas/2020/11/23/9579a510-2dad-11eb-9c71-ccf2c0b8d571_story.html