Martha McSally

There has been significant waste of resources put into a lot of good ideas.

To be understaffed by 300 agents is absolutely not acceptable for the State of Arizona or for our country.

We can't accept everybody. We can't. But there has to be a better system right now. It is cumbersome. It takes too long.

I think everyone on the panel... agrees that we need a legal immigration system that actually allows for people to come over and spend money for the day.

If we had an I.D. card with a biometric marker... it would cut out the underground economy.

We are confusing Juan, or Juanita... with Juan the drug smuggler, and that is the big problem.

We have an epidemic of those that are addicted and dying from opioid abuse.

It takes 18 months for someone to be hired for one of these critical positions at our ports of entry.

We have to chew gum and walk at the same time.

Our ports of entry, I believe, are just as important, and they are just as dangerous.

I think commerce is just as important as what happens in the rural areas of the United States.

I think we need to change that trend, and you can be one of the persons to change that trend.

I have to say for myself and Mr. Pearce, our hearts continue to be with your family.

We have to be smart about this.

Our visa system, our temporary worker system is broken.

We believe that comprehensive immigration reform is also essential for border security.

I don't know of a better use of our scarce Federal funds than investing in our sea ports, our land ports, and our air ports of entry.

Securing the border at the border should be the strategy for our country.

I just want to give you the opportunity.

It is that public safety threat to those that are living in those areas that are then having the traffic funneled into them which is the main point of feedback that I am getting really across the board.

The primary role of the interior checkpoints is to make the cartels go around them.

With limited resources, the best way to address that is to figure out how to funnel the illegal activity into a place that we can monitor and intercept at a time and place of our choosing.

What happens if something gets through us? What happens when they go through these roads, through these main roads down on 90, on the main roads over here off of Wilcox and the Tombstone area, Nogales? They serve a purpose. They serve a…

We have facilitated an open door for these Central Americans, and we have no idea what crimes they have committed in their country.

For the record, I just want to make a comment, that the second hearing we had in Washington, DC last month was really focusing on the infrastructure and the staffing at our ports of entry.