Alejandro Mayorkas: “If our budget were reduced, it would seriously, it would gravely harm our ability to apprehend individuals...”

We continue to support the bipartisan legislation that a group of Senators worked on for months.

I have said now repeatedly it is a crisis.

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

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.