"A crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter future migration. That, to me, is a humanitarian crisis."
"Right now, at this point in time, domestic violent extremism, the lone wolf, the loose affiliation of individuals following ideologies of hate and other ideologies of extremism that are willing and ab..."
"We are working as hard as we are not only in addressing the urgency of the challenge, but also in building the capacity to manage it. And to meet our humanitarian aspirations in execution of the Presi..."
"We are watching the threat stream, the information, social media, other sources with respect to this particular day, March 4."
"The prior administration dismantled our nation`s immigration system in its entirety, quite frankly, the entire system was gutted. It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administr..."
"We will restore them to the fullest capacity that we as a U.S. government can do."
"The Department of Homeland Security has a noble mission, to help keep us safe and to advance our proud history as a country of welcome."
"We have strengthened that application to capture more data."
"The participating country must have a visa refusal rate that is under a particular percentage."
"I think they are improving in the sharing of information. They are on the right path."
"I do wish the name was changed because the term 'waiver' suggests some sort of relaxation of a security requirement when, in fact, the opposite is true."
"I believe I did. In a conference call, I believe I did, to the best of my recollection."