"Every city in America has become a border city. Drugs and criminals, including hundreds of terrorists are pouring into our backyards. Our schools and hospitals are over-run with illegals. Police forces are overwhelmed as progressive mayors slash their budgets. Our streets are not safe. Fentanyl is r..."
"These policies have actually put them at risk by forcing them to wait in areas where cartels target them for kidnappings, torture."
"Today's hearing is an excuse for Republicans to double down on the failed policies from the Trump administration."
"2 is not a solution. It is just the opposite. If people are fleeing a burning building, it is not a solution to lock the door and prevent them from fleeing."
"A schizophrenic policy back and forth from hardline to more humanitarian, back to hardline, back and forth, back and forth."
"I believe, it is very transparent, that everything, all the hearings that we have seen from all the committees, including this one now, on this issue, is to tee up the ball so that when we finish the ..."
"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."
"Can you discuss how a lease with these expanded areas can remain consistent with what the National Park Service's long-term plan for Anacostia Park is?"
"This should remain a lasting feature of the site."
"I believe achieving the right balance here is key."