Why weren't we prepared, if we expected 65,000?

Why come all the way to the United States? Why put these children a thousand miles and risk their lives?

I am blaming Congress as well and our lack of immigration enforcement.

We have laws on the books. The 2006 Secure Fence Act.

If you enter the United States illegally of any age, you will be deported back to your home country.

Let the record show that since 2006, there has been an increase of over 9,000 CBP Agents in this country since 2006 to now. Over 9,000 more agents to secure our border, and our border is less secure today, I think, than it ever has been.

Are we enforcing that? No, we seem to be looking the other way.

I am frustrated that last night, we saw the IRS commissioner continue to obstruct Congress's investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups by a crashed hard drive and lost e-mails.

Article IV section 4 guarantees every State that joins this union protection against this.

Regardless of how we feel about immigration reform in this country, how can we sit by and watch our country's National sovereignty, my country's National sovereignty violated over and over and over on our Southern Border?

If children can come across because CBP Agents are changing diapers or warming formula or doing other things other than securing the border, then I am sure that elements that want to do harm to this country can exploit our poor Southern…

This administration's mishandling of this situation just encourages more lawlessness.

I would like to just reject categorically any claims made by Members of this committee that somehow America or American citizens are at fault for this crisis, this situation on the border.

The public perception that you can come here and stay has changed.

If we don't create a deterrent to stop that from happening, this untold carnage is going to continue to happen.

Just throwing money at the problem alone--$2 billion, that is what the President has asked for--if we don't have a focused plan, or if we don't let the CBP officers or ICE do their jobs, then that money is wasted.

The President just said a couple of days ago that he has decided to go it alone on immigration reform, that he is frustrated with the way things have happened.

Let's say the buck stops here and let's just fix it and stop this carnage from happening.