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MAYORKAS: “First and foremost, we're dealing with a broken immigration system, a fact about which everyone agrees, it is one of the rare things about which there's unanimity of views. And we need Congress to act, number one. Number two, within that broken immigration system, we are challenged by an unprecedented level of displacement in the western hemisphere of historic proportions. We have responded with a model approach that has proven to work, which is to build lawful pathways for individuals to arrive in a safe and orderly way, and to deliver consequences for those who don't meet them. We are working very closely with the city of New York.”