Let’s be serious about Alejandro Mayorkas

Sunday, March 29th, 2015

For 4 years, from 2009 to 2013, Alejandro Mayorkas was the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This was not a glamor position highly coveted in government. It meant taking over a portion of the former INS which was split into three parts and moved to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. Two of the parts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, were the law enforcement portions of the former INS, while USCIS was…