WASHINGTON – The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S.
immigration agency under President Barack Obama. Now, seven years later, Mayorkas is President-elect Joe Biden’s groundbreaking nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and that since-completed investigation has emerged as a potential stumbling block.The Office of Inspector General’s 2015 report criticized his handling of three politically connected applications to a program that grants U.S.