"Despite the legal requirement to detain migrants facing removal, yet again President Biden's budget requests fewer resources for detention beds."
"However, as my colleague from West Virginia pointed out in her recent Floor speech, in the President's budget fentanyl is actually only mentioned twice but climate is mentioned a 148 times."
"I'm disappointed to not hear you call it a crisis truly because I think that's what we have before us."
"We've lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses and 70,000 of those... are attributed to fentanyl."
"I am hopeful that we can get on the same page about this."
"The cartels control an awful lot of the southern border south of the United States."
"Respectfully, Mr. Secretary, it's not enough. We have a humanitarian crisis and national security crisis, the face of which becomes very real."
"We owe it to the citizens of this nation. We owe it to the people who are being trafficked by these drug cartels to take back control."
"It is without a doubt a crisis and I will say once again that I'm disappointed that I can't hear you say those words as well."
"When we look at what drug cartels are doing not only south of our border but here in our country, we are allowing this crisis to make these cartels rich to the tune of billions of dollars and the cost..."
"I don't know what the definition of crisis in your mind is, and I don't know if everybody's just been told under no circumstances are you to call it a crisis, but I assure you Carla doesn't care who's..."
"When we talk to the Border Patrol agents and say do you need this and they said, oh, my God, do we need these because they have such a task in front of them."