WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept.
11 attacks, but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out his hardline immigration and law enforcement agenda.Biden on Monday announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who served under President Barack Obama as deputy secretary of Homeland Security and director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Mayorkas has achieved some historic firsts. In 1998, he was the youngest U.S. attorney. He was the highest-ranking Cuban-American under Obama.
And he helped negotiate the first homeland security memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Cuba, where he was born.If confirmed by.