Mayorkas, 61, is expected to win confirmation since the Democrats picked up two additional Senate seats this month in Georgia. But legislative aides from both parties said it is unclear how ...

Key cyber-focused members of Congress and other officials on Tuesday applauded the Senate confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), citing the ...

President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, appeared before a Senate panel Tuesday to begin his confirmation process, vowing to do ...

The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas as Homeland Security secretary, the first Latino and immigrant to serve at the helm of the department. His confirmation will fill a critical ...

Washington — The Senate on Tuesday approved the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to become secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), confirming the former federal prosecutor and ...

Despite opposition from Republicans, Mayorkas secured enough votes for confirmation, by a 56-43 vote. It was one the closest votes for any of President Joe Biden's nominees. Biden asked for ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled Mayorkas’s first confirmation hearing for Tuesday. Four former DHS secretaries made a bipartisan endorsement in an ...

Assuming she prevails in her Senate confirmation, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will serve as Mayorkas’ successor. Agency veteran Caleb Vitello has been tapped to lead ICE and former Border ...

Sen. Marco Rubio, who dropped immigration reform when the issue became politically inconvenient, didn’t vote in favor of Mayorkas’ confirmation and neither did Florida’s other senator ...

At Mayorkas’s Senate confirmation hearings, where Feinstein introduced him, he said, “The most important responsibility of U.S.C.I.S. is its authority to bestow citizenship. As a naturalized ...