Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the National League of Cities 2014 Congressional City Conference. During his remarks, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas underscored the Department’s important collaboration with communities across the nation.
DHS continues to work with our local partners – mayors, councilors, and aldermen -- on a wide range of homeland security priorities, including counterterrorism, commonsense immigration reform, cybersecurity and human trafficking.
At the conference, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas announced a new partnership agreement between DHS and the National League of Cities to work together to combat human trafficking. Through this partnership with the DHS Blue Campaign, DHS will work with the NLC to provide web-based training to its members and public awareness materials with both the Blue Campaign and National League of Cities logos. We hope to spread the Blue Campaign’s message to as many cities as we can, to help the victims of this heinous crime.
Collaboration with our local, state, tribal, and territorial partners is key to executing our homeland security mission. As Deputy Secretary Mayorkas indicated yesterday, as our Department and its mission evolves, we will continue to work closely together with leaders from the National League of Cities, and from cities and communities across this Nation.