Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959, the same year that Fidel Castro came to power in the Cuban Revolution. His parents were both of Jewish background, his father born on the island, his ...

DailyMail.com breaks down Mayorkas' background, ... And his mother, Anita Gabor Mayorkas, was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s.

When Mayorkas was a child, his mother didn’t want him going to sleepovers or away to camp after she had lost so many family members to the Holocaust, the secretary has said.

Alejandro Mayorkas got into a heated exchange with Sen. Josh ... and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. ... Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the ...

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A migrant family talks to members of the US National Guard after crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, on January 18. Go Nakamura/Reuters/File The situation at the border is unsustainable.

WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant ...

To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in ...