"H.R. 2 is the panacea and fundamentally will not solve the issue, neither will a wall."
"This is about organized, well-financed crime on both sides of the border. And we need to put the focus and the attention on breaking that up."
"the wall doesn't work, in part by demonstrating that it has been breached so often that there are full-time welding crews down there to do the repairs."
"Well, I am a lawyer, so I am talking about what is legal and what is not legal."
"It ends asylum entirely as a concept and as a legal responsibility in this country and internationally."
"President Biden has brought the nation to a breaking point with his reckless immigration policies."
"We must establish responsible immigration policies like those found in Republicans' H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act."
"That is not a solution. That is a way to try to seek attention, politically."
"I think consistency would be important for your presentations before Congress."
"The current influx of migrants is a humanitarian crisis, no doubt, that deserves meaningful, comprehensive solutions."
"Today's hearing is an excuse to use national parks and public lands as a political foil to fuel anti-immigrant rhetoric."