"I want to mention this, because I think it is important to remind folks that we are all here committed to national security and, of course, to border security."
"Our ports of entry are really engines of commerce and are places where our economy is succeeding in the U.S."
"Border security is also about ensuring that our economy is strong and that we are also providing an orderly process."
"Every single Republican that is a part of this Subcommittee actually voted against funding for Custom Border Patrol's efforts at the border just recently."
"Democrats care about human trafficking and taking it on. We care about a safe and secure border."
"I am also a small group of Members of Congress that are immigrants."
"Real patriotism, American patriotism, is actually about helping people."
"These broad attacks that we are hearing today on immigrants today, I believe is un-American."
"What I don't want to do is conflate asylum seekers with the flow of drugs."
"a vast majority of the fentanyl entering the United States is actually by U.S. citizens at legal ports of entry."
"the American people are being misled by many Members of this committee and, in the process, are demonizing vulnerable people, including immigrants across this country."
"I hope we can work together to build a just and humane immigration system in our country, one that respects asylum seekers."