Education costs? We spend about $17,000 on each child in the United States very, very roughly and have may be over a million illegal immigrant children in U.S. schools.

If someone's not even supposed to be in the country and they kill someone, that is clearly preventable.

There is immense cost to that goes with that.

I think you are right to be concerned about it. We want to work with you to make sure that these States are working with ICE so that we are not letting dangerous people out.

And so we have got to get it right. We have been toiling with this for decades. Let's get it right and let's do it.

It is time to secure the border.

A core attribute of sovereignty is maintaining control over national boundaries, yet for years we have witnessed the failure of the U.S. Government to secure our southern border.

I thank the witnesses for being here today and for their testimony.

We are not talking about a 2,000-mile wall. It is going to be basically finishing the job of the 2006 Secure Fence Act.

The simple promise that the laws are going to be enforced have driven down--but I must warn you, we're in a honeymoon period.

We have got to support the Border Patrol. We have got to have good policies so that people know the law is going to be enforced.

Democrats used to support border security — now they want illegals to pour through our borders.

I received calls from the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada asking to renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate. I agreed..

I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.

As families prepare for summer vacations in our National Parks - Democrats threaten to close them and shut down the government. Terrible!

the overwhelming majority of the people we arrested in those cases were not undocumented immigrants.

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Mr. Chairman, this amendment will place a much-needed priority on advancing the technological capabilities of the U.S. Copyright Office. I support the underlying bill to make the selection of the Register of Copyrights more open and more…