Alejandro Mayorkas

Latest Stories

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ICE to scour U.S. communities looking for border absconders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the United States after crossing over from Mexico, June 8, 2021. border. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File) **FILE**

Biden to end border pandemic emergency in May; DHS anticipates a surge of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents and vehicle are seen in this undated file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Border Patrol union fears agents getting railroaded in DHS probe of ‘whipping’ Haitian migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ukrainians gather at a refugee shelter in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 17, 2022. Poland has admitted some 1.95 million refugees fleeing war and Russian aggression on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Border Patrol told it doesn’t have to expel Ukrainians who sneak into U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghans wait to receive food rations organized by the World Food Program (WFP) in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar province. eastern of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The Taliban's sweep to power in Afghanistan in August drove billions of dollars in international assistance out of the country and sent an already dirt-poor poor nation, ravaged by war, drought and floods, spiralling toward a humanitarian catastrophe. (AP Photo/Zubair Abassi)

DHS grants new legal protection to Afghans in U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden's border and illegal immigration efforts by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden submits his ICE report late, gets an ‘F’

By Tom Homan

Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, addresses the media during a press conference to discuss security measures taken in advance for the Super Bowl NFL Football game Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Dozens of House Republicans tell DHS Secretary Mayorkas to resign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Gabriela Matinez (left), 19, of Prince George's County, Md., and Liz Milner of Washington D.C., hold a signs as they join immigration advocates from American Civil Liberties Union, Union We Dream, MoveOn and others during the announcement of a new campaign targeted at President Trump's immigration policies, at the Ellipse in front of the White House in Washington on Sunday, March 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Nation’s capital becomes safe haven for illegals; new DHS rules expand no-go zones for ICE arrests

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

DHS plans new regulation to stop family separations of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ** FILE **

DHS defends delay in the investigation into Border Patrol agents accused of whipping Haitians

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DHS chief Mayorkas: ‘I give myself an A for effort’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Mayorkas faces questions over honesty as Senate panel prepares to grill him on border crisis

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 29, 2019, photo, migrant Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the U.S., the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date as part of a new program "Remain In Mexico" policy in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

DHS issues memo to cancel ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2019 flagged more than 11,000 illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office custody. They accounted for 180 homicide charges, 750 sex crimes and 1,400 weapons offenses. (Associated Press/File)

Biden administration expands no-go zones where ICE can’t arrest illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

DHS Secretary Mayorkas has COVID-19

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 25, 2021, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the media outside of the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami. Federal immigration agents will stop making mass worksite arrest of immigrants employees suspected of living in the U.S. without legal permission. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued guidance Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, saying the agency would cease such targeted enforcement which has "not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country's unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

EXCLUSIVE: DHS drafts plan to allow fraudsters to keep citizenship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

DHS secretary orders ICE to stop targeting illegal immigrants at jobs

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Aug. 25, 2021 file image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division check evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File)

‘Humanitarian parole’: Outbreaks force feds to step up vaccinations of Afghan evacuees

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

DHS chief: Being in the U.S. illegally isn’t enough to earn deportation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Mayorkas: Investigation into border agents will be fair despite Biden’s vow that ‘people will pay’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times