Mr. Mayorkas, known to employees as “Santo Mayorkas” for his frequent vacation indulgences, announced the extra time off in a departing message this week to his workforce.

Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a press interview on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell) ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the Jewish homeland security secretary, after a process that a number of Jewish groups ...

“Right now, the situation is quite dire,” Mayorkas said Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Mayorkas is in his final weeks as DHS secretary before Biden leaves office. The fires around Los Angeles ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is talking about what went wrong, and making a case for what went right on his watch during the Biden administration. Mayorkas will step down next ...

Amna Nawaz discussed more with outgoing Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the White House.