Fireside Chat with Alejandro Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas

In a more than 30-year career, Alejandro Mayorkas has served as a United States Attorney, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and as the 7th Secretary of Homeland Security.

During his tenure at the Department of Homeland Security, he led the development and implementation of DACA, negotiated cybersecurity and homeland security agreements with foreign governments, led the Department’s response to Ebola and Zika, helped build and administer the Blue Campaign to combat human trafficking, and developed an emergency relief program for orphaned youth following the tragic January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Mayorkas also created the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate to better ensure the integrity of the legal immigration system.