"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."
"Immigrants to this country commit violent crimes at a rate much lower than that of individuals born in America."
"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 particu..."
"Many of my Republican colleagues... simply see the issue of immigration as a political cudgel."
"if we get rid of title 42 authority, return to sort of the foundational immigration law, there are both civil and potentially criminal consequence"
"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."
"First, Title 42 is a public health authority, not an immigration authority, correct?"
"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 Ti..."
"I just want to put that acknowledgment on the record as I turn it over to you, Mr. Secretary, for opening remarks."