— including refusing entry to asylum-seekers, taking children from parents at the border and restricting travel to the U.S. by Muslims.
This summer, the General Accounting Office found that Chad Wolf, acting secretary of DHS, was not legally qualified to hold his job.Mayorkas, who turns 61 Tuesday, was born in Havana, but his family fled when he was an infant. His father was born in Cuba with Sephardic roots, and his mother is a Romanian Jew who fled the Holocaust, according to a report by“When I was very young, the United States provided my family and me a place of refuge,” Mayorkas said in a tweet on Monday.
“He has the subject matter experience to take on the enormous job of cleaning up after the disastrous and inhuman immigration policies that have torn lives and families apart under the Trump administration,” Menendez said in a statement.tweetBiden’s selection of Mayorkas was supported by several immigrant advocacy groups despite record deportations under the Obama administration. Mayorkas became DHS deputy secretary in 2013, after Obama had revised his deportation policy and authorized DACA.
“Alejandro Mayorkas is someone we worked closely with to implement DACA,” said Greisa Martínez Rosas, executive director of United We Dream, a network that advocates for young immigrants.
Will be great to see a room that included more than old rich white men !!
I guess you can say he is a Latino. The only problem is that for Cubans there are different laws that apply to them coming to the US. Do not think he really understands what other Latinos go through.
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