Roger Noriega

I think we need to recognize that the purpose of the United States is not to sell rice and soybeans.

The best ambassadors for the United States are Cuban Americans who are also the people who heap benefits, material benefits, on their family members in Cuba.

The idea that people who are going to the beaches of Cuba, to which Cuban people do not have access themselves, to suntan themselves and the idea that sunbathers are going to liberate Cuba is grotesque as well.

Engaging the totalitarian regime of Cuba to the exclusion of the 11 million people in Cuba I think is a grotesque mistake.

This hearing is a welcomed opportunity to recall that the regime in Havana has never been confronted for its international crime spree.

The Castros never faced justice for this crime despite the late dictator's public admission.

I certainly think there is a problem with that and even the idea of being able to muscle certain companies into not relocating their plants.

Americans must admit that many of Mexico's in security woes are the direct result of being on the threshold of a nation with an insatiable desire for dangerous illegal drugs.

I see the border as where our two nations are joined, not where they are divided.

Much is made of the $60 billion trade deficit with Mexico. However, the U.S. trade encompasses integrated cross-border supply chains or production sharing.

It is really vitally important--and I agree with the Governor here--that Members of the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress generally, and other stakeholders in this relationship speak out to explain the vast mutual benefits that derive from our…