Chris Murphy

We have got to unleash those funds, whatever it takes, because otherwise you either got appropriated more dollars, and if you don't, you will have famine, you will have destabilization, which means you have more migration coming out of…

But it cannot be that we can't both save lives while also not unjustly enrich the Taliban.

So let me give you an example. If you have recidivism rates in a particular sector, like Rio Grande, that are 45 to 48 percent, that means that in that sector, if you had 8,000 encounters on a particular week, roughly 3,800, almost half of…

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary. Again, let me pass along my thanks to your team which is just doing extraordinary work every day to protect this nation.

I am constantly demoralized by the tone of our debate about security and in particular the tone of our debate about our border.

Let me assure my colleagues non-citizens arriving at our southwest border don't care who the President of the United States is.

Many of my Republican colleagues... simply see the issue of immigration as a political cudgel.

I strongly criticized the Trump administration's decision to utilize Title 42 of the Public Health Safety Act to rapidly expel large numbers of migrants in direct contravention of existing laws protecting the right to apply for asylum.

This committee did the right thing by coming together and providing some supplemental appropriations to USCIS to deal with the backlog.

Immigrants to this country commit violent crimes at a rate much lower than that of individuals born in America.

It's just a fact that the data suggests that in fact there is no greater threat.

Mexico has one single gun store and it's on a military base. So it's not surprising that almost none of the guns that are used to commit crimes in Mexico come from Mexican gun stores.

I think as you dramatically reduced the amount of time that it takes to process a claim, I can't help but think that that won't have a deterrent effect.

I don't want our government to stand down given those threats.

There is this vicious cycle of violence that exists whereby guns and firearms from the United States illegally trafficked into Mexico and Central America are used to commit an epidemic level of violent crime which then creates the…

When you see these elevated numbers on the border, much of this is frankly a result of Title 42 authority

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.

Therefore, when a person arrives and DHS exercises Title 42 authority against an asylum seeker, are there any consequences if they come again to the border or are they just turned back around under Title 42 authority a second time?

If we get rid of title 42 authority, return to sort of the foundational immigration law, there are both civil and potentially criminal consequence

First, Title 42 is a public health authority, not an immigration authority, correct?

I just want to put that acknowledgment on the record as I turn it over to you, Mr. Secretary, for opening remarks.

Let me try to level set a bit on what the consequences have been at the border while we've had the Title 42 authority in place.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

A conservative Supreme Court justice doing a photo-op with a Republican candidate on a competitive primary, I think the court has crossed the Rubicon. We need to pass the Supreme Court Ethics Act.

These actions demand accountability, both for the soldiers who perpetrated these atrocities and the officials in the Kremlin who ordered them.