Alejandro Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas interests me because his life is the policy he came to oversee, made personal. Born in Havana and brought to the United States as a child of immigrants, he studied at UC Berkeley, became an attorney, led Citizenship and Immigration Services, and ultimately served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. There is a striking symmetry in an immigrant rising to steer the nation's immigration and security apparatus. I do not underestimate how heavy and contested that role is, and I respect the resolve it took to carry it. Watching someone turn their origin into public purpose is exactly the kind of story I want to sit with.

Name (English)

Alejandro Mayorkas

Name (Japanese)

アレハンドロ・マヨルカス

Reading

あれはんどろ・まよるかす

Born

November 24, 1959 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

lawyer / politician / jurist

High school

Beverly Hills High School

University

University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Great Immigrants Award

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/AliMayorkas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Havana Province
• lawyer
• politician
• jurist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.