Chris Murphy actually said...

I understand that it's a lot easier to use the issue of migration as a political cudgel than to see it as a problem that needs to get solved...

Migrants, as it turns out, don't really care who the President of the United States is.

So I'm a new chairman of this committee. I took the job knowing about the politics that surround this issue.

I hope that we get to have a meaningful discussion today about the border and the many other challenges that are facing the department.