Mr. Mina has served as Deputy Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) since April 2019. As the Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Mr. Mina oversees CRCL's provision of proactive advice regarding the Department's public facing programs, as well as CRCL's public complaints process. Mr. Mina testified before Congress regarding the Department's use of facial recognition technology in February 2020 and led the DHS delegation participating in the United States' presentation to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in August 2022. Mr. Mina served as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from January 2022 to April 2023.
Prior to joining CRCL, from February 2013 to April 2019, Mr. Mina was the Chief of the Labor and Employment Law Division (LELD) in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Before entering federal service in 2011, he spent nearly six years in private practice representing federal employees in disciplinary actions, EEO complaints, and claims of whistleblower reprisal. Mr. Mina has experience practicing before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board, and in federal courts. In May 2015, Mr. Mina was selected to participate in the DHS Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program. As part of the program, he served as Acting Deputy Associate General Counsel for General Law in the DHS Office of General Counsel from March to July 2016. Mr. Mina also served as Acting Chief Counsel of ICE OPLA's Seattle Office from March to May 2018.
Mr. Mina holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.