Photo: Zachary Hupp/U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
Overview
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American attorney and government official who was the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving from 2021 until 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Mayorkas previously served as the director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, and the sixth deputy secretary of homeland security from 2013 to 2016.
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1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- lawyer / politician / jurist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Beverly Hills High School
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
Awards & achievements
- 2010 Great Immigrants Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.