Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is an American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2, 2021. During the Obama administration.
Alejandro Mayorkas wife
Tanya Mayorkas is the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas’s wife. Mayorkas was a member of the presidential transition team for Barack Obama before he assumed office in January 2009, where he led the team responsible for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.
Alejandro Mayorkas children
Mayorkas and his wife Tanya have two daughters, Giselle and Amelia. Mayorkas was appointed by President Obama as the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Alejandro Mayorkas parents
Nicky Mayorkas studied economics at Dartmouth College. His mother, Anita (Gabor), was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s before leaving toforhe United States after the Cuban Revolution.
Alejandro Mayorkas siblings
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959. When he was one year old, his parents fled with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution.
