The Department of AG touches the lives of all Americans every day, and in every way.

I have asked if you would work on adjustment there.

Meaning you're just going to have more people come across faster. Your plan is designed to have more people come across faster. Is that what you're saying?

I don’t find a lot of solace in that just because it didn’t happen in my state. So, yes, I think you could expect the pro-life activists would push for federal protections.

This bill does serve as an exemplary example of what can be done when we work together.

Your Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection professionals will tell you that they could secure the border if you would enforce the tools and the laws that you have. You're not doing it.

Why don't you enforce the tools you have?

Do you have preparations in your budget if Public Health Order 42 is lifted and how many more illegal encounters do you anticipate having?

The Supreme Court told you to enforce the Migrant Protection Protocol. That decision came down in August. Why are you not enforcing it?

This legislation, for those of us in the West, prioritizes western States' water rights.

You don't need to explain what it is to me. My question to you is when the Administration lifts it and you're already at more than a million illegal encounters this year, what are you going to do because that number's going to go up…

The plan, the six-point plan that you put forward is simply a plan to have more people come through faster and to process them quicker.

The statistics would say otherwise. 1.7 million illegal encounters last year, more than one million so far this year.

How can you say what you're doing is in any way effective, and are you the least bit concerned that people are coming in here illegally from a hundred different countries?

1.7 million illegal encounters last year, more than one million so far this year.

I am confident that--perhaps I shouldn't be--that at least some colleagues would not want us to return all Cubans that we encounter at the border because of their claims of fear of persecution by reason of the authoritarian regime there.

How many people through Remain in Mexico have you enforced under the Supreme Court directive? Because last I checked, it was about 400 people total.

I appreciate that. But it is particularly that one category.