ATLANTA, Georgia, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following remarks on April 26, 2024, by Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas at the 10th Annual African American Mayors Association Conference: * * * Last March, a large and destructive tornado touched down in Rolling Fork, Mississippi - a town of just less than 2,000 people a few miles from the Louisiana border. Seventeen people were killed, more than 150 were injured, and whole blocks of the town were simply blown a  more