It is very important that we have the resources.

I am talking terrorism, I am talking any--as you continue to secure the Southern border, it is going to create pressure in other places.

It is going to be really hard to convince that kid not to join a gang... if they think that their parents... are at risk back home in El Salvador.

I do not think there is any doubt that MS-13 has become a cancer in our society and that it is metastasizing in every community.

I think it is critically important that everyone be represented, whether it is NGO's, whether it is immigration groups, whether it is advocacy groups.

I am deeply concerned about personnel issues on the Northern border and hope that whatever you are looking at in that study includes securing enough personnel to do the job and to meet the challenges.

And, we are not going to forget yours--and we are not going to forget your story and we are going to get to the bottom of this.

I think my point would be, then we are just treating symptoms, because we are not going to get ahead of this unless we work collaboratively.

The jurisdictional issues that we have, trying to tackle that, are absolutely horrible.

I think it is clear--and the ability to collaborate, with those resources, is so critical.

When we make mistakes here, in terms of national policy and national cooperation as well as the utilization of the resources we have in this country--when we do not do our job internationally, you guys are going to continue to be stressed…

I am concerned that, with the lack of Federal resources, it takes that great collaboration and pulls it apart.

The rate of murder and mayhem is unparalleled throughout the world, which is really saying something.

But, it is DHS's position that most of the contraband--especially heroin and methamphetamines--are actually coming through the ports of entry (POEs).

Deporting people home may, in fact, mean sending one of the worst perpetrators, who now has the ability to extort any number of additional people, home to achieve a criminal result right here in the United States.

We see a lot of trafficking on and off of the reservation.

I would invite you to come up and see the technology.

The criminal element is pouring across the border, because there is a market for what they are selling here.