Will you please join Representative Juan Vargas, who represents the border area with me, and me in San Diego soon to see this tragedy for yourself?

These Americans are counting on you and me to fix it.

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This is the community that is highly at risk, and so this is why we dedicate significant resources to attending to their humanitarian needs.

We are investing for the future, this is a smart investment, and I really thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for bringing this forward.

the Republicans seemed to forget that when they were in charge. They ran up this huge deficit, a huge debt, during the good times.

We have had this in our history. I can tell you along--I have lived most of my life along the border in California and Mexico.

I, too, lived in El Salvador for a while. I was a Jesuit at the time studying to be a priest.

I certainly think that China poses the greatest threat for the United States going forward.

I hope I don't hear from Texas anymore telling us how great they are with everything, when they couldn't keep the electricity on.

The notion that we have open borders is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

I think we have abandoned, or as my colleague Tom Malinowski said, we have abdicated our responsibility I think for two reasons.