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 experience in America to running his sprawling agency.
But it is the department’s role in immigration that has made Mayorkas a target of impeachment.
Mayorkas said his immigrant and refugee background mean that he brings an intense patriotism to the job.
Citizenship and Immigration Service, Mayorkas put in place a program giving protection from deportation to migrants brought to the border as children.
Since taking the job as DHS secretary, Mayorkas has been subject to often hostile rhetoric over the administration's handling of the border and immigration.
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