We have a scourge of fentanyl. I think it's more than 70,000 American lives that have been lost.
we need legislation to ban them.
I understand the urgency of addressing the Houlton Station.
We have changed dramatically the way in which we conduct enforcement operations at worksites.
There is no question that the security of the southern border is an extraordinary challenge.
We have surged resources to an unprecedented degree to detect, to interdict the fentanyl from coming and to investigate and prosecute the in...
We need more visas and we need a more nimble system to address varying degrees of urgency in the marketplace.
I think that 57,800 died in 2020, in the last year of the Trump Administration.
It is coming through--I think that more than 90 percent actually is being trafficked through the ports of entry at our southern border, yes.
We need legislation.
We have brought unprecedented force to that effort, Ranking Member Britt.
Our asylum system is fundamentally broken. Our whole immigration system is broken and I very much look forward to working with you on a bipa...
Today, this Committee is marking up profoundly undemocratic, paternalistic legislation.
Let me begin by saying to this Committee, keep your hands off D.C., please.
D.C. residents, the majority of whom are Black and Brown, are either unworthy or incapable of governing themselves.
There was a gun amendment attached to it to wipe out D.C.'s gun laws.
This disapproval resolution is a choice.
This is called democracy.
