USCIS Director
USCIS Director
Alejandro Mayorkas sworn as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on August 12, 2009. A hearing to consider his nomination on July 28, 2009, the Judiciary Committee ordered the nomination reported to the Senate for consideration.
A political refugee born in Havana, Cuba, Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security. He has led a distinguished 30-year career as a law enforcement official and a nationally recognized lawyer in the private sector. Mayorkas served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2016, and as the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013. During his tenure at DHS, 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. Mayorkas also created the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate to better ensure the integrity of the legal immigration system.
