Secretary of Home Affairs Fidel Sonora.
The Secretary of Home Affairs is a member of the Cabinet of the United States of Mexico and the chief executive officer of the Department of Home Affairs, which maintains the U.S.M.'s public lands and oversees other internal matters.
The only Secretary of Home Affairs mentioned by Sobel is Fidel Sonora, who served under President Hector Niles. Following the August 1853 armistice ending combat in the Rocky Mountain War, Niles assigned Sonora the task of conducting a survey of the U.S.M., to "make an inventory of assets and liabilities, to determine where we stand." Sonora was able to report that conditions were much better than was generally assumed. The war had mostly been fought in the thinly-populated areas of Arizona and Mexico del Norte, leaving the developed parts of Mexico barely touched. Sonora recommended federal aid only to the Indian tribes in those two states who had suffered most from the war.