Alejandro Mayorkas: “We are not telling you not to come. We are just telling you that we are putting a system back in place in which you can…”

There is no facts underlying these assertions. They are extremely damaging.

We need Congress to act swiftly to fund what should be a nonpartisan, apolitical phenomenon, and that is providing relief to all individuals with respect to the impacts of these extreme weather events.

I have said now repeatedly it is a crisis.

We need those funds to increase to enable local communities to protect and guard themselves.