Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think we are in a really important phase.

Well, I am a lawyer, so I am talking about what is legal and what is not legal.

It doesn't deal with the crisis that we are seeing globally.

The environmental problems with illegal immigration have persisted for decades on our public lands, costing taxpayers millions each year to clean up the tens of thousands of pounds of trash and human waste littered across our public lands…

The unprecedented number of refugees and asylum seekers that are coming to the border is a reality. It is a humanitarian crisis, and it needs to be dealt with.

this Administration, and I know this comes from much higher levels than where you all work, where they have pushed this through.

Unfortunately, the Administration has now set a terrible precedent to use our public lands across the country to house migrants.

we need to treat our panelists with respect.

Sadly, due to the incompetence of the Biden administration, there really is no such thing as a border community these days.

I am not one of those anti-Semites.

We have 155 this year alone, terrorists on the terrorist watch list. We have 155.

We must establish responsible immigration policies like those found in Republicans' H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.

In the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we voted to invest in our highways and transit, putting important resources in the Highway Trust Fund and other transportation programs.

I think consistency would be important for your presentations before Congress.

President Biden has totally lost operational control of the border, allowing thousands of migrants, as well as those who wish to traffic human beings and to illicit drugs across our public lands.

The wall doesn't work? Yes, walls do work. They actually do work.

H.R. 2 is the panacea and fundamentally will not solve the issue, neither will a wall.