Alejandro Mayorkas
| Alejandro N. Mayorkas | |
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| 6th United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security | |
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In office December 23, 2013 – October 28, 2016 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Rafael Borras (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Russell Deyo (Acting) |
| Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services | |
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In office August 12, 2009 – December 23, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jonathan Scharfen (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Lori Scialabba (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
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November 24, 1959 Havana, Cuba |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
UC Berkeley Loyola Law School |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is a Cuban-American lawyer who served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security from Dec. 23, 2013 to Oct. 31, 2016. He is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr ("WilmerHale"), joining the firm on Nov. 1, 2016. Mayorkas practices in the areas of civil and criminal litigation, internal investigations, cybersecurity, crisis management and strategic counseling.
Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959. His parents arrived with him and his sister to the United States in late 1960 as political refugees, following Fidel Castro's communist takeover. He lived in Miami, Florida before his family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was raised for the remainder of his youth.
Mayorkas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1985. He lives with his wife and two of his three daughters in Washington, D. C.
After three years as a litigation associate in the private practice of law, Mayorkas became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California in 1989. He prosecuted a wide array of federal crimes, developing a specialization in the prosecution of white collar crime. His prosecutions included the successful prosecution of Operation PolarCap, then the largest money laundering case in the nation; the conviction at trial of Heidi Fleiss on charges of federal conspiracy, tax fraud, and money laundering charges; the takedown and successful prosecutions of two of the District's largest telemarketing fraud operations that preyed on the elderly; and, the takedown and successful prosecution of a health care fraud and insurance fraud conspiracy.
Mayorkas served as the coordinator of the Southern California Telemarketing Fraud Task Force, overseeing the coordination of federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies to most aggressively combat telemarketing fraud throughout the Central District of California.
From 1996 to 1998, Mayorkas served as Chief of the Office's General Crimes Section, overseeing the training and trial work of all new Assistant United States Attorneys in the Criminal Division. He received numerous awards from federal law enforcement agencies, including from FBI Director Louis Freeh for the successful prosecution of Operation PolarCap.
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