Alejandro Mayorkas: “Detention has been misused in the immigration system for many years.”

Chair Murray, I remember very well when you and I visited a Coast Guard facility in your jurisdiction when I served as a Deputy Secretary.

I would welcome the opportunity to work with you to increase the Coast Guard's budget quite significantly.

Chair Murray, I am not tracking this discrete issue. I will pay close attention to it, and then report to you.

I have said now repeatedly it is a crisis.