Alejandro Mayorkas: “Our asylum system is broken. Our entire immigration system is broken and in desperate need of reform, and it has been so…”

We do not minimize the significance of the challenge at the border.

The more detention beds that we are funded for, the more individuals that we would be able to detain.

We need individuals, elected officials, people who have the platform to really debunk this false information.

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.