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First Latino tapped to head DHS signals shift from Trump's hard-line immigration policies

Posted on AllSides November 24th, 2020

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Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, Joe Biden, DACA

Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Latino chosen for President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet, will head a Department of Homeland Security that is expected to drastically overhaul President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, as well as put Mayorkas at the forefront of the new administration’s anti-terrorism strategy.

Mayorkas will be the first Latino and first immigrant to head the Department of Homeland Security, if confirmed by the Senate. The highest-ranking Cuban American in the Obama administration, Mayorkas was deputy secretary of DHS under then-Secretary Jeh Johnson, and before that was the director of...

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