"I am very well aware of Camp Matamoros. It was quite notorious for regrettable reasons, for the conditions in that camp."
"We developed a platform for the safe, orderly, and humane adjudication of the claims of individuals who were in that camp."
"You have a right to that data and we will provide it to you."
"I have worked with the Coast Guard for many, many years, and I have addressed the challenges at the border for even more years, from 1989 through 2001 as a Federal prosecutor."
"I commit to you that the funding that the Coast Guard receives will be used by the United States Coast Guard to most effectively conduct and accomplish its varied missions."
"The most sustainable solutions to our challenge at the border including addressing the root causes that drive people to migrate in the first place."
"We are dedicated to an orderly, safe, and humane immigration system, and, therefore, we stopped the prior administration's policy of expelling the unaccompanied children."
"In my view, it was antithetical to not only our values and our principles, but also our operational needs."
"They did nothing to facilitate addressing the surge. What they did was they dismantled the tools that we had to address it."
"That program should have been built up rather than torn down."
"We have tremendous vetting capabilities in the Department of Homeland Security and across the Federal enterprise."
"We are complying with the court order, Senator."