All Quotes

The conditions in detention facilities and compliance with our standards of detention, have been an area of focus under this Administration.

We have interdicted more narcotics than ever over the past 4 years.

The STORM Act is really going to make an impact as well.

I am the Secretary of Homeland Security; therefore, I bear responsibility.

She has an obligation to be nonpartisan and neutral in the execution of her responsibilities in her current position at the Department of Homeland Security.

I have articulated quite comprehensively in a memorandum that we believe that that policy should not be in place.

No, the commitment of this Administration is not to continue to build the wall.

I do not take steps to relax policies against an authoritarian and oppressive regime.

Detention has been misused in the immigration system for many years.

Ranking Member Portman, that is a mischaracterization of what I said.

The border is closed. The border is secure.

We are not the truth police.

That is something that I would consider, but I----

The enduring solution is legislation to fix what is unanimously understood to be a broken system.

Senator, the six lines of effort that I outlined in my opening statement reflected, in greater detail, and in the plan that is set forth in the memorandum I issued last week I spoke of the consequence regime that is one of the key pillars…

We should be able to remove individuals who have made a claim for relief, who have had that claim heard by an immigration court.

I disagree with the formulation of that question.

The $765 million is comprised of two parts. One, to address the backlog.