"We are always in management crisis. We manage by crisis."
"If you seal off the Southern Border, you seal off the Northern Border, you seal off the ports of entry, we are still going to have that major issue, which is a medical issue called drug addiction in o..."
"Is there anything we can do to talk to address our foreign partners to make sure that they have a--you have a better level of cooperation with folks overseas?"
"Over the last few months, this subcommittee has had the opportunity to look closely at some of the factors that push the people of Central America and Mexico to leave their homes and travel to the U.S..."
"I think it is a bigger deterrent if you put them in our jails as it is in a foreign jail."
"Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank you for holding this very important hearing."
"it's not an immigration problem; it's a workforce problem."
"I think it's essential that there be regulation."
"there's tremendous diversity of systems, because we have at least 51 criminal justice systems in the United States."
"When it comes to facial recognition, no consent is necessary."
"Will you commit here, sir, today to deliver Congress, us, the 2022 Quadrennial Homeland Security Report?"
"I agree with my colleagues, record number of illegal drug seizures at the border."