Biden's Homeland Security Pick Is No Border Softie
Alejandro Mayorkas will bring a gentler touch to immigration, but asylum seekers still won't get an open door.
President-elect Joe Biden will bring back Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to end many of Trump's harsh new immigration policies. But his choice of Alejandro Mayorkas to lead his Department of Homeland Security indicates the new administration won't be embracing open borders, or even crafting especially welcoming policies toward migrants arriving over the Mexican border.
President Donald Trump’s harsh treatment of immigrants was one of the most contentious issues of his first three years in office, and Biden will certainly expect Mayorkas to take a kinder approach toward asylum seekers, refugees and the undocumented.