Alejandro Mayorkas

Public Servant

1959-11-24

Alejandro Mayorkas is an American public official and attorney serving in senior U.S. federal roles. He has served as Secretary of Homeland Security and previously held leadership posts at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. His work has focused on immigration policy and national security administration.

Quotes by Alejandro Mayorkas

We work with the Mexican authorities. We have our own intelligence architecture. And we are aware of the involvement of smuggling organizations in irregular migration and the misinformation that they disseminate to vulnerable populations.
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Words matter. We've seen that with soaring impact, and we've seen it with tremendously damaging impact.
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I don't speculate about the motives - the political motives of the political motives of personal attacks.
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Each officer and agent deserves the tools needed to perform his or her duties at the very highest level. Such tools include comprehensive training, clear policies and practices, well-functioning and state-of-the art equipment, sound information-sharing protocols, and efficient staffing models.
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It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don't have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that's where we get involved.
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I oversee three agencies and thousands - tens of thousands of individuals who focus on our immigration system and fixing it.
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The fact is that disinformation that creates a threat to the security of the homeland is our responsibility to address.
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Horses can traverse terrain that might not otherwise be covered. In fact, horses are often used to not only assess a situation, but to actually help people in distress. CBP personnel have saved many lives on horseback.
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I visited the Darien, an extraordinarily treacherous terrain, and learned firsthand the dire consequences of that undertaking.
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In a world where unanimity is so difficult to achieve, there is one thing that - as to which there is unanimity, and that is the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
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Because there was a pathway to citizenship that allowed me to secure legal status, I had the unbridled chance to work hard and build a life and a family here.
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We will remain vigilant, and we will not forget that protecting America means that we will defend the principles on which it was founded.
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