Thank you, Senator Murkowski, for your commitment and vigilance on this issue.

A budget that makes only minimal new investment to combat fentanyl will fail to make the progress we need.

Let us be clear. Despite Congress' inability to respond to this crisis, the Biden Administration and Secretary Mayorkas have removed, returned, or expelled more migrants in 3 years than the Trump Administration did in 4 years.

The truth is that we have a President who could take executive action, and if he wanted to he would.

It would have made a massive down payment on fixing our broken border and immigration authorities.

Another impeachment article rages about the Immigration Court backlog, a backlog that has existed in Republican and Democratic administrations.

This budget, even with this proposed increase, is not enough to secure our border and manage the unusually high levels of immigration to the United States.

This piece of bipartisan legislation would have been the most transformative change to our broken immigration system.

These articles are laughable on their face.

Another impeachment article rages about the Immigration Court backlog, a backlog that has existed in Republican and Democratic administrations.

I know my colleague, Mr. Morelle, discussed that issue.

Let us be clear. Despite Congress' inability to respond to this crisis, the Biden Administration and Secretary Mayorkas have removed, returned, or expelled more migrants in 3 years than the Trump Administration did in 4 years.

I would like to work with you and with my staff on answering questions that we have on what resources the Anti-Trust Division.

The Bipartisan Border Bill, negotiated by myself, Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, with help from Senator McConnell and Senator Graham.

One of the ways that we convince young men and women to come join the Coast Guard is to make sure that they have adequate living conditions.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Cartwright.

It would have provided $20 billion in extra emergency funding to buy 50,000 detention beds, to hire 4,300 new asylum officers, 100 new immigration judges, 1,500 border patrol agents, 1,000 new deportation officers.

It would have reduced, maybe most importantly, the time to process an asylum application from 10 years, in some cases, to just weeks or at worst months.