Alejandro Mayorkas Quotes

Alejandro Mayorkas

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : November 24, 1959

When a recipient of DACA suffers the expiration of the DACA, that individual is no longer lawfully present in the United States. They are subject to removal, and very importantly to so many of these young people, they will no longer have the opportunity to work lawfully in the United States.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Never underestimate the talent and dedication of the Department of Homeland Security workforce.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We really do need Congress to pass immigration reform. It is essential that we do so.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The Department of Homeland Security bears an extraordinary weight on behalf of the American people - the weight of grave challenges, seen and unseen.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The love for this country that I learned from my parents made the January 6 attack on the Capitol all the more horrifying.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We are seeing expressions of violent extremism born of false ideologies, false narratives, ideologies of hate, and we are seeing the potential connectivity to violence which is where we step in.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I have worked in support of federal agents and officers, local law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I have resolve. It's an important human quality when one has incredibly important work to do on behalf of the country.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We are working with the office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in addressing the challenges with the social media companies to ensure that we stop the violence that is born of ideologies of hate, and we are engaging with the community.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We know how to conduct an investigation with integrity.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We do not condone, we do not tolerate any mistreatment of any migrant.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Each officer and agent deserves the tools needed to perform his or her duties at the very highest level. Such tools include comprehensive training, clear policies and practices, well-functioning and state-of-the art equipment, sound information-sharing protocols, and efficient staffing models.

Alejandro Mayorkas

There are different levels of strength and resilience across the critical infrastructure enterprise, and that is why we are so focused on making sure that the cyber hygiene across the entire enterprise is strengthened.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Title 42 authority has been applied, irrespective of the country of origin, irrespective of the race of the individual, irrespective of other criteria that don't belong in our adjudicative process and we do not permit in our adjudicative process.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I think it's very important to recognize that the challenge of migration, an increased level of migration, is not unique to the United States.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The Department of Homeland Security is, fundamentally, a department of partnerships.

Alejandro Mayorkas

It is the family member, the friend, the school teacher, the neighbor, the clergy leader who can see someone descending into a realm of antisocial behavior and, hopefully, intervene to help.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The fact is that disinformation that creates a threat to the security of the homeland is our responsibility to address.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We are a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I have been in government now for more than 20 years, and there are policies with which I have agreed and policies with which I have disagreed... That's part of being a member of an organization in a leadership structure.

Alejandro Mayorkas