Andy Biggs

You apparently believe this to be a game, Mr. Mayorkas.

I said, and their job is to detain and remove immigrants.

Mr. Secretary, this budget proposal is an insult to every American.

These men and women are proud to fulfill their duty to secure our border, and they do this with no thanks, no support, and no recognition from your administration.

Mr. Secretary, every time you fail to acknowledge this is a crisis, you lose even more credibility with the men and women of DHS.

Secretary Mayorkas, your reckless border policies are enriching drug cartels, and these cartels are laughing in our face.

You have disregarded the laws written by this branch of Government, laws passed by both Republicans and Democrats.

Congress makes the laws, and the Executive branch is obligated to follow the laws.

The proposed $4.7 billion Southwest Border Contingency Fund is just another gimmick to spend American taxpayer dollars on a crisis you created.

The objective of this budget is not to secure our border, but to force CBP personnel to process illegal aliens into the interior of the United States.

President Biden himself likes to quote, and I quote him, 'Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.'

This budget proposal is an insult to every American. It fails to take seriously many of the most pressing national security threats.

Secretary, every time you fail to acknowledge that this is a crisis, you lose even more credibility with the men and women of DHS.

You moved Northern Border agents to the Southwestern Border, leaving our Northern Border vulnerable.

You instructed ICE agents not to detain or deport the vast majority of individuals illegally in the country.

You lowered the credible fear standards, so even illegal border crossers who have broken the laws of the United States can claim asylum.

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 conclusions--his conclusions--and exposing the…

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.

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.

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 want to tell you that that is certainly antithetical to the Constitution of the United States and the separation of powers.

That really is the question of this. When is enough, enough?