>Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba.
>Yep, couldn't see that one coming.
>Totally a surprise.
Yeah, you forgot a couple of things there, Anon.
His father, Charles R. "Nicky" Mayorkas, was born in Cuba. He was a Cuban Jew of Sephardi (from the former Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey and Greece) and Ashkenazi (from Poland) background. He owned and operated a steel wool factory on the outskirts of Havana.[14][16][17][18] Nicky Mayorkas studied economics at Dartmouth College.[18]
His mother, Anita (Gabor),[18] was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s[19][20][21] before leaving to the United States after the Cuban Revolution.[19]
It should be no surprise why Mayorkas was "selected" for his position, just like Merrick Garfinkel.