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Alejandro Mayorkas
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Alejandro Mayorkas
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Nominee
Assuming office
TBD
President Joe Biden (elect)
Succeeding Kirstjen Nielsen (de jure)
Chad Wolf (de facto)
6th United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
In office
December 23, 2013 – October 28, 2016
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Jane Holl Lute
Succeeded by Elaine Duke
Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
In office
August 12, 2009 – December 23, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Jonathan Scharfen (acting)
Succeeded by Lori Scialabba (acting)
United States Attorney for the Central District of California
In office
December 21, 1998[1] – April 20, 2001
President Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded by Nora Margaret Manella[2]
Succeeded by Debra Wong Yang[3]
Personal details
Born November 24, 1959 (age 61)
Havana, Cuba
Political party Democratic
Education University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (JD)
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and former government official. Born in Cuba, he grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Loyola Law School. During the Clinton administration, Mayorkas served as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. During the Obama administration, he served in the Department of Homeland Security, first as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (2009–13) and then as Deputy Secretary (2013–14). In 2016, he became a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a Washington, D.C. law firm. On November 23, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he has nominated Mayorkas to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security in his Cabinet.
Contents
1Early life and education
2Career
2.1Assistant United States Attorney
2.2United States Attorney
2.3Private law practice
2.4Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
2.5Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
2.6Return to private practice, 2017–2020
2.7Secretary of Homeland Security designate
3Personal life
4References
5Sources
6External links
Early life and education
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas,[4] nicknamed Ali Mayorkas,[5][6] was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959.[7] His parents arrived with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution. He lived in Miami, Florida, before his family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was raised for the remainder of his youth.[8] Mayorkas grew up in Beverly Hills and attended Beverly Hills High School.[9]
His father was a Cuban Jew of Sephardic background and his mother a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s[10][11][12] where his father owned and operated a steel wool factory.[8]
Mayorkas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in 1985.[13]
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