"It is decisions made by you and your boss that have caused this spike. It has incentivized people."
"The drug cartels are taking advantage of this. With that open border, the mass waves of people coming and they are taking advantage of us."
"If we fix that first before we secure the border, we are just doing more of what you have done."
"It is pretty weak sauce when you come in and ask a Federal official to comment on a state law that has not even been passed yet."
"When you remove the crime-infested, homicide-riddled cities from the State murder rate featured in the Third Wave study you dramatically lower the murder rate for that State, upending their conclusion..."
"This is, in my opinion--is criminal."
"I want to know where the money is, when we are going to get it back, and I want to know who is being held accountable."
"Unfortunately, your admission during the March 28, 2023 Senate Judiciary hearing that you are unaware that cartels are using illegal aliens as decoys reflects incompetence."
"That really is the question of this. When is enough, enough?"
"I want to tell you that that is certainly antithetical to the Constitution of the United States and the separation of powers."
"I thought it was humorous when my friend, the Ranking Member Nadler, talked about the radicalist Supreme Court because he didn't like their ruling."
"I wouldn't want this committee, which I sit on, to be in a vacuum and not realize the serious, serious concerns that there are out there."