Alejandro Mayorkas: “We do not minimize the significance of the challenge at the border.”

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

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

The situation is grave. It requires solutions.

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.