India, US To Re-Establish Homeland Security Dialogue, Scrapped By Trump

It is rare for the department to issue a readout of the secretary's meeting with a foreign envoy.

The Biden administration has announced the re-establishment of the Homeland Security Dialogue with India that was discontinued by the previous Trump dispensation. This comes a day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday and expressed his desire to further strengthen the partnership between India and his department. "Mayorkas and Sandhu agreed to re-establish the US-India Homeland Security Dialogue and to discuss important issues such as cybersecurity, emerging technology and addressing violent extremism," according to a readout of the meeting issued on Tuesday. It is rare for the department to issue a readout of the secretary's meeting with a foreign envoy.