Alejandro Nicolas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American attorney and government official who was the 7th United States secretary of homeland security, serving from 2021 until 2025.

Jan 16, 2025 · ‘Santo Mayorkas’: DHS secretary’s final tally tops $3 billion in extra vacation time for employees Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a press interview on Friday ...

Jan 20, 2025 · As the head of DHS, Mayorkas oversaw the creation of a task force charged with reuniting families that had been separated at the southern border under Trump’s administration. As of early 2023 some 600 children had been reunited with their parents, but another 1,000 remained separated.

Jan 15, 2025 · Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is talking about what went wrong, and making a case for what went right on his watch during the Biden administration. Mayorkas will step down...

Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security by President Biden on February 2, 2021. A political refugee born in Havana, Cuba, Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.

Jan 14, 2025 · NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in part 2 of his exit interview.

Jan 13, 2025 · President Biden's secretary of homeland security ends four contentious years in which Republicans accused him of failing to secure the border. When he came by our studios for an exit interview,...

Jan 16, 2025 · Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas delivered the following remarks during a press call. Thank you all for joining – Alejandro Mayorkas here, the Secretary of DHS. In December, we again saw fewer border encounters than the monthly average for 2019. In fact, the number of encounters we experienced in December – 47,300 – is the lowest monthly ...

Feb 14, 2024 · The House of Representatives, by an extremely narrow margin, voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150...

Feb 14, 2024 · Washington — The House voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, casting a historic vote that marks the first time a Cabinet secretary has been...