We have to make that a legal process. We have to control that.
I think that is part of the purpose of this hearing, should there be greater enforcement?
We would not be discussing DHS funding today had President Obama not taken the unilateral executive action.
The Senate bill was--yes, I know you do not want me to say it to you--it was a matter of compromise, but it got us down ...
I am all for free and fair trade and functioning ports of entry.
We have to get a coherent, long-term approach to border frontier.
I refuse to write or mark-up and be involved in a border security in name only bill.
We are in a period of gridlock and not moving on anything, except perhaps border security.
The agricultural community or field is the poster child of this problem.
We always thought the House should do its own thing and figure out how to do it.
Unfortunately, as a Nation, I do not think we have really come to grips with the full reality, the full complexity of th...
Technology is the key to securing the border.
this really, from my standpoint, is the top priority of this Committee
the Obama Administration's recent executive actions on immigration have been widely perceived throughout Central America...
I think you would be hard pressed not to at least consider the fact that that deferred action, that policy of this Admin...
Did not the Congressional Budget Office actually conclude that eliminating these programs would be a fiscal negative?
Coming to the United States for work is the number one incentive for illegal immigration.
I think you can tell by the emphasis we are putting on border security and our immigration system, that this is a top pr...