The administration's border policies coupled with the President's threats to close the border altogether and his incendiary immigration rhetoric have created utter chaos and confusion at our ports of entry.

Well, it is also not going to prevent anyone from crossing and reaching American soil.

Earlier this month, I led a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border to examine the reality of President Trump's increasingly restrictive border security and immigration policies.

We witnessed first-hand the severe slowdown of legal trade and travel as a result of this administration's policies.

The recent reassignment of CBP agents has only exacerbated an already dire situation.

I would personally like to see ICE focus--and you are known, just like the FBI is known for something, DEA is known for something, you are known for focusing on the felons.

The chaotic state of the Department of Homeland Security is so troubling. It seems like the car is driving off the cliff with no one to take the wheel.

But when the average person in this country sees abuses of children and families, that is where a lot of this comes from, and we are concerned about it.

And when our President puts out we are going to go out there and arrest 25,000 people, or whatever he said that number was, that doesn't help you, it doesn't help our system of justice, and it scares the dickens out of these families who…

we must not demonize those who, like so many of our ancestors, came to this country to seek a better life.

Together we must find that balance which, sadly, up to now, has been lacking in many areas.

I am very concerned that this administration's policies negatively impact the well-being out of our immigrant populations.

This isn't mainly a border security issue, militarizing our border or erecting a wall. That is not going to stem this tide of refugees or asylees.

We need policy solutions, as well, and we have to work together.

The budgets each year have cut aid to these Central American countries and to the nonprofits and other organizations providing these services.

the goal here ought to be try to reduce the healthcare spend or at least bend the cost curve down

I consider reprehensible at the very least.

I think this is the appropriate place to begin the conversation around healthcare.