(thanks for unbanning me so quickly, I will use another source)

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Washington is also abuzz with the process of confirming Joe Biden's cabinet. With many controversial picks, one of the most shocking appointments was Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security.

Alejandro Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba. As an infant, Mayorkas was brought to the United States by his parents, who fled from Cuba to Los Angeles as refugees.

For some time, Mayorkas continued to reside in California, eventually reaching the top federal prosecutor's office before moving his career to Washington D.C., where he would ultimately serve as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009-2013 and deputy-secretary of DHS from 2013-2016.

In 2009 Mayorkas moved to Obama's DHS as the director of USCIS with unanimous consent from the Senate. He made his first real national impact in 2012 as the architect of the disastrous Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Executive Order. DACA gave amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens residing in the country through deportation protection and work permits but also an indirect "pathway to citizenship" through the practice of "Advance Parole."

However, Mayorkas's tenure at DHS under former-President Obama was not controversy-free. In 2015, Mayorkas was the subject of a scathing inspector general report that found he had intervened to help foreign investors in the EB-5 visa program get connected to top members of the Democratic Party.

The IG report highlighted three individual EB-5 cases. In the first, Mr. Mayorkas "pressured staff" to expedite the review of an investment at the then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's request. In the second, Mayorkas performed an "unprecedented" intervention to help a company chaired by former DNC Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Tony Rodham, the late brother of Hillary Clinton. In the third, Mayorkas ordered USCIS to reverse a decision to deny EB-5 funding for Sony after receiving communications from Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

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And it goes on and on. This guy is crooked. His connections are better than Biden's so I guess Homeland Security trumps White House.