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Senate confirms Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born Jew, as Homeland Security secretary
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born son of a Holocaust survivor, as Homeland Security secretary on ... Antony Blinken in the State Department, Janet ...
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Biden nominates Alejandro Mayorkas, Latino Jew who has said Jews face heightened threat, as Homeland Security secretary
Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother. His mother survived the Holocaust.