Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and former government official. Born in Cuba, he grew up in California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. During the Bill 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 in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & 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 the his Cabinet.
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24 November 1959 (age 65) Havana, Cuba
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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