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Mike Amezcua

@DrMikeAmezcua

Mike Amezcua is an assistant professor of history at Georgetown University, where he specializes in 20th-century US history; Latinx history; race, politics and immigration. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the making of Mexican Chicago (available in 2021 from the University of Chicago Press).

<p>If confirmed by the Senate, Mayorkas would be the first Hispanic and the first immigrant to lead DHS.&nbsp;</p>
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Alejandro Mayorkas isn’t the fix-all pick Biden thinks he is

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