I support comprehensive immigration reform. I support the right to protest.

So we are doing what we have to do within the statute, within the law.

I would ask you to look at some of the joint operations.

I mean, I think that is the result or the impact that we are looking at.

There is a provision that we added that says that every agency now for the first time, as they make their budget requests, the funding request to Congress, in consultation with the GAO, that they have to tie in for the first time the…

But the majority of those people coming over are coming over to spend money in the U.S.

I appreciate what your men and women do. And I appreciate all of the good work.

I would ask you to look at the public-private partnership, because we want to see men and women in blue.

I hope we can work in a bipartisan way to find a solution to the men and women.

the current policies are causing systematic failures to the United States immigration enforcement process, creating, I would argue, an invitational posture that is leading to a humanitarian crisis.

In my judgment, this is one of the reasons why we need comprehensive immigration reform, both for the added border security that it would provide and, frankly, for--and I know some people disagree with this, but I think I am right on…

It upsets me that politically motivated policies and directives are creating an invitational posture at the border, and that this open invitation causes human suffering and law enforcement nightmares.

Bottom line, ICE is not an organization that should be politicized. Its law enforcement mission is just too important to this Nation.

over 80 percent of all the goods and people that come into the U.S. come through land ports.

What I want to do is focus on performance.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

we appreciate all the work that the men and women in green do.

I have a lot of high hopes for you; you are smart. And we really appreciate looking--working with you.