Los Angeles Times — “Alejandro Mayorkas: The immigrant overseeing the borders”

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Readers may find this article by Andrea Castillo about Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, of interest.  I must admit that I did not know that he is a fellow Angeleno, UC Berkeley graduate, and an attorney by training:  

“In 1959, Mayorkas was born in Havana to a Jewish Cuban father and a Romanian Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. The family fled Cuba after Fidel Castro seized control.

After graduating from Beverly Hills High School and attending UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School, Mayorkas became the country’s youngest U.S. attorney. He was based in Los Angeles, where more than one in three people are immigrants.

In 2009, then-President Obama appointed Mayorkas director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, where he implemented Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the program that extended deportation protections to young immigrants.”