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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks with NPR's Morning Edition Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Is Biden's border plan working? Here's how the top immigration official says it is

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sat with Morning Edition to discuss the president's approach to migrant arrivals and where he feels the strategy has worked.

May 11, 2024
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  • Obed Manuel
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference about impeaching Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last winter.

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Impeachment may not remove an official but even using the word leaves a mark

"Impeachment talk" becomes the political conversation and an object of obsessive fascination for the news media. Whatever else is happening, impeachment talk is guaranteed airtime and clicks.

February 06, 2024
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  • Ron Elving
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies on Capitol Hill in November 2023.

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House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas

Republicans contend Mayorkas' "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" on immigration amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors" for failing to manage the U.S.-Mexico border.

January 28, 2024
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, center, arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 17 for negotiations on a border security deal.

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As GOP moves to impeach Mayorkas, he urges Congress to fix a broken immigration system

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with NPR about the crisis at the southern border. He called the immigration system "broken" and urged Congress to pass legislation to fix it.

January 03, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee last week.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced a vote, but House stalls Homeland Secretary Mayorkas impeachment

A vote to impeach Mayorkas for his handling of immigration stalled as eight Republicans joined with Democrats to vote 209-201 to send Greene's resolution to committees.

November 14, 2023
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A group within the Department of Homeland Security focused on combating disinformation has been paused.

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DHS pauses a board created to combat disinformation amid a campaign to discredit it

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would pause the work of a board created to combat disinformation. The board — and its leader — faced an online campaign to discredit its work.

May 18, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies in front of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. The secretary is expected to face more heated partisan questioning in a hearing Thursday morning.

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DHS Secretary Mayorkas faces a partisan divide over Title 42 in Capitol Hill hearings

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies today before the House Judiciary Committee where he's expected to face another heated round of questioning on Title 42.

April 28, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies in front of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. The secretary is expected to face more heated partisan questioning in a hearing Thursday morning.

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DHS Secretary Mayorkas faces a partisan divide over Title 42 in Capitol Hill hearings

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies today before the House Judiciary Committee where he's expected to face another heated round of questioning on Title 42.

April 28, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Friday that Cameroon would be granted Temporary Protected Status for 18 months.

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The U.S. designates Temporary Protected Status to Cameroon for 18 months

The designation comes amid extreme violence between Cameroon's forces and separatists as well as a significant rise in attacks from Boko Haram, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

April 16, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that reuniting families was a "moral imperative" for the Biden administration.

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Biden To Allow Some Separated Migrant Families To Reunite In The United States

"It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

March 02, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez

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