We are serious about making this particular investment.

It escapes me why they should be prioritized.

I must say there is some similar confusion creeping into this enforcement regime.

I think we all want to get this right.

the department's announced policy is to focus on people who pose a danger to the country--particularly convicted felons--for enforcement action.

It is absolutely a shame, and I will continue to say it every chance I get, it is a shame that 19 states in the United States have failed to expand Medicaid.

I applaud the President's efforts to ensure that all states, regardless of when they decide to expand Medicaid, are eligible for 100-percent federal support for Medicaid expansion during the first three years of participation.

The prevalence of health disparities is alarming and can be seen in all areas of health from access to care to susceptibility to illness.

The President in fact pushed very hard in cooperation with the Congress for years for comprehensive immigration reform.

It was only after months, indeed years of that kind of stonewalling that the President did take executive action.

My own view, and I think it is widely shared, is that in the long term, true and effective border security isn't going to be achieved, even with all the money we might throw at it, without comprehensive immigration reform.

I want to give you a chance to talk about one of the most difficult and contentious areas that we know you are dealing with, and that is, immigration enforcement.

It seems to me it is raising the possibility that the kind of re-prioritization you undertook with respect to Secure Communities, it is almost leading to a situation where that kind of reprioritization might be again, there may be calls…

Our biggest challenge in the past has been the vagaries in the budget process.

It strikes me, in listening to your answer to a number of questions, that at issue here may be the criterion you defined in your executive action, of course, quite a while ago, of people who have been in this country for years.

Eight years does seem like a very long timeline, or is that not unusual for icebreakers?

I do think there is an ambiguity here, and I want to get you to talk about it, because we do have these recent arrivals from Central America, many of them children, women, people who are fleeing terrible conditions.

It seems like this is becoming a more regular process where we have something unexpected.