Martha McSally

Technology is a crucial force multiplier, and part of our multi-layered approach.

Deterrence is the ideal goal of the Nation's border security effort, yet is difficult to measure or accomplish.

Deterrence is the ideal goal in the Nation's border security effort, yet it is difficult to measure or accomplish.

Border security is a complicated endeavor because there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

We are dealing with real people.

You have got to solve this problem.

I think Carlos Curbelo's bill is a good place to start and I really think we need to move that forward.

I agree with you that we need to come up with a legislative solution here to address this issue.

I also want to know whether you are talking to them about including ports of entry in infrastructure discussions because these are so vital for economic development and also for security?

As you know, 90 percent of the hard drugs are coming through the ports of entry.

There has got to be some sort of carrot.

Do you feel, Mr. Wagner, that the penalties are appropriate to deter this action?

Putting a biometric exit system in place is, as the 9/11 Commission noted, 'an essential investment in our National security.'

We need to know who has overstayed and who hasn't overstayed.

It is troubling. It is frustrating. It is infuriating.

I want to commend DHS for producing a more accurate picture of the challenge, but the numbers are stark.

Conversations about the best way to secure the Southern land border have been the principal focus of the media, Congress, and the administration for the last few months.

It is probably time to jettison the conventional wisdom that visa overstays make up about 40 percent of the illicit flow.

To put that number into context we only apprehended 310,000 unique individuals crossing the land border illegally last year.

I want to really encourage you and I want to partner with you because I know those are potentially hard conversations.

Anything that was well-intended, but, in fact, then breeds resentment, right, anything that makes it look like women are getting a break or getting easy then breeds resentment.

I still believe, to this day, that somehow we are inculcating a culture of gender bias from the very beginning when we are training.

We need more integration, not more segregation, because that builds resentment.

I think that is really something that we need to be paying a little bit more attention to.

Just let me be clear. Nobody is reporting to another midshipman or cadet who is then deciding not to do something with this.