Tom Tancredo: “The issue is, of course, this particular agency and the security of the Nation is dependent upon having an organization…”

“The issue is, of course, this particular agency and the security of the Nation is dependent upon having an organization like the INS do its job, do it effectively and efficiently. I hope that I have indicated to you and to the Members and our colleagues the difficulty we would have if we were to just give this agency the responsibility to actually increase border security. It has to be abolished. We have to start with something new. It has to be something we create. The President today, as I understand, has called for something far more dramatic, far more significant than the original proposal to just split the agency into two parts. He has called for the complete elimination of this part of the agency, the enforcement side, creating a brand new one that would combine various other offices, various other functions of other agencies, including Customs and Agriculture, perhaps DEA, putting them into one agency, with the clear purpose, the clear line of authority, with people who are not philosophically inclined to open borders, but actually have a belief that they have a responsibility to help defend our borders.”