Alejandro Mayorkas Quotes

Alejandro Mayorkas

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : November 24, 1959

I've never heard anyone say that the laws in immigration are well-structured.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The impact of climate change, extreme weather events, the reason people are fleeing their homes is quite significant.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I began in government service as a federal prosecutor. After more than eight years of trying cases before juries, I served more than three years as a Senate-confirmed United States Attorney.

Alejandro Mayorkas

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

Alejandro Mayorkas

We will remain vigilant, and we will not forget that protecting America means that we will defend the principles on which it was founded.

Alejandro Mayorkas

A crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a nine-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter future migration.

Alejandro Mayorkas

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

Alejandro Mayorkas

We spoke of the responsibility to manage borders throughout the region in a humanitarian way that follows the law, which means that those who qualify for relief in a particular country are granted that relief and those who don't are repatriated.

Alejandro Mayorkas

There will be many more challenges ahead of us because that is the nature of a dynamic immigration system that is broken at its core.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We understood that the Title 42 Public Health Authority of the CDC would not be around forever.

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 provide, if that claim succeeds, they have established a basis to stay here. If that claim does not, they will be removed.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We are deeply concerned about false narratives, ideologies of hate that are fueled by conversations and messages on online platforms and other social media.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world with the parents I had. Period.

Alejandro Mayorkas

We will not abandon the needs of vulnerable children.

Alejandro Mayorkas

It's quite challenging in dealing with a country like Venezuela, where the diplomatic relations, if they exist at all, can be strained.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Americans have witnessed the costs of allowing politics to pervade intelligence.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Oh, do not underestimate the capabilities of the career personnel in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the number of distinguished leaders that we have in that wonderful organization that does such tremendous work.

Alejandro Mayorkas

The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.

Alejandro Mayorkas

It is an awesome responsibility to demonstrate not only from coast to coast and border to border, but around the world, what this nation can be and what it is. It is a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Alejandro Mayorkas

I have worked in support of all the men and women throughout the Department of Homeland Security and in public service who work in, and even rush into, harm's way to protect us all. I have not for a single moment lost sight of what a privilege and honor it is to do so, nor of the obligations it carries on our Nation's behalf.

Alejandro Mayorkas