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Immigration Advocates Celebrate Alejandro Mayorkas as Biden’s Pick to Run Homeland Security

Yahoo News reports on President-Elect Biden’s announcement that he intends to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of DHS. Mayorkas, who previously served as deputy secretary of DHS under President Obama, is the son of Cuban Jews who came to the United States as refugees in 1960, less than a year after he was born.

Chad Wolf will be the replacement DHS Secretary.

McAleenan resigned as acting Secretary for DHS, but has stayed while the White House has tried to find a replacement. President Trump told reporters on Friday that he planned to install Chad Wolf as acting Secretary for DHS. The White House later reported that Wolf will take over McAleenan’s role on November 12. Wolf currently serves as undersecretary for policy at DHS, though he was never confirmed by the Senate. Wolf fulfills the legal requirements because because he held a position for more than 90 days under Nielsen, the last Senate-confirmed DHS secretary.