I ask unanimous consent to submit the American Immigration Lawyers Association statement dated June 24, 2014.

I think we should not run away from challenges that have been made regarding the treatment of these children.

What child can imagine that they would fit under DACA? It is clearly an issue of devastating human smuggling and human trafficking.

I have been, as you know, a prosecutor and we have been fighting violence and drugs for the last decade or more.

I hope every college kid who is sitting here with their visions of the important world they are playing with social activism... will appreciate that when they are sitting in their dorm smoking dope purchased from these drug gangs.

The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, a Representative in Congress From the State of Texas:

We are talking about children who are not in the Taj Mahal but are desperate and maybe internally displaced or chased off by the violence of their countries.

We are investigating and we care about these children and we are gonna address this in the way that the United States has always done in a humanitarian crisis.

It is a humanitarian crisis of huge proportions, and we have to deal with it.

Let me first of all acknowledge that this should not be political grandstanding.

the violence today is really even a greater cause for the departures than the misery that they experience.

You happen to have all of us in the entire State of Texas, and that means that you have the families and friends and local government officials that are here in this region.

None of these children were a danger to themselves.

I would argue that the National Guard militarizes.

Can we not balance our desire for security with the recognition that we have passed a law that is not a law that undermines National security?

I just take issue--and I respect all of the thinking on this, but I take issue with the idea that our Border Patrol team is not well placed with resources to do their jobs.

Should we respect and engage with the citizens in this region about how we approach the safety and security of the border?

This was a bill that we worked with extensively.