Florida International University law dean R. Alexander Acosta was greeted Thursday as “a safer choice” for labor secretary in the Trump administration after the abrupt withdrawal of fast-food executive Andrew Puzder’s nomination.

Acosta, the only son of Cuban immigrants, is a Miami native son and a veteran Republican administrator, serving as assistant attorney general for civil rights and U.S. attorney in Miami.

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