Alejandro Mayorkas

We do not tolerate any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant, period.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

A crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I was raised to appreciate each day what this country has meant for our family, and the blessing it is to know…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I began in government service as a federal prosecutor. After more than eight years of trying cases before juries, I served more…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

What we fundamentally need is legislation to fix what everyone agrees is a broken immigration system.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

When an individual makes a claim for relief in a post-Title-42 environment, when they make a claim for relief as our laws…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

As the threat landscape continued to evolve, so did our approach to keeping our communities safe.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The principles of homeland and security have been tremendously important in shaping my life.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The opportunity to earn citizenship was vital to my success in this country, and today it is my highest honor to be…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We are addressing the root causes of irregular migration, why people feel so desperate to leave the countries of origin, their homes,…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

With respect to Guantanamo, Guantanamo was a place that historically has been used to return individuals who are interdicted at sea. That…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Fleeing from a country where one feared the communist soldier, my parents brought us to a nation whose men and women in…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

So, one of the limitations on DACA was one had to be under the age of 31 at the time of application,…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

It is the family member, the friend, the school teacher, the neighbor, the clergy leader who can see someone descending into a…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We are seeing expressions of violent extremism born of false ideologies, false narratives, ideologies of hate, and we are seeing the potential…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

In the years immediately following 9/11, our focus was on the foreign terrorist who sought to harm us within our borders and…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We spoke of the responsibility to manage borders throughout the region in a humanitarian way that follows the law, which means that…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We work with the Mexican authorities. We have our own intelligence architecture. And we are aware of the involvement of smuggling organizations…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We are obligated to and very proud to stand by one of the most foundational principles of our country, and that is…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

As a prosecutor, the law and the facts of a case were my foundation and my guide, and they have remained my…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The cybersecurity of our nation will be one of my highest priorities.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Domestic violent extremism is the most acute threat, terrorism-related threat that we are seeing to our homeland.

— Alejandro Mayorkas