Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secretary on February 2, 2021. Previously, Mayorkas served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2016, and as the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013.
Alejandro Mayorkas
“Since May of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015.”
The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”