"I am very pleased, I will say personally, that you have been nominated to lead ICE."
"I have been frustrated over the last few years at the Department's failure to improve what I consider to be inhuman detention policies and conditions."
"I intend to focus on FPS. I think it is a very important part of what the Department does."
"There has to be accountability. There has to be responsiveness."
"I will say that I am encouraged by some steps that Secretary Napolitano has taken thus far."
"I do not think they have a positive place in Federal law enforcement as a general matter."
"I think we are going to have to really spend some more effort and resources."
"I think that, as I said earlier, this is not a question of whether or not the agency detains people, but it is a question of who does it detain, how does it detain them, and are there better ways to d..."
"It seemed to us that we had to at least guarantee that the person going into this position, so critical to the lives and safety of Americans at times of emergency, have had the basic experience to giv..."
"The extraordinary record of experience in emergency management that Mr. Fugate has is, of course, very important, and I want to say how historically important it is to this Committee and put it in som..."
"I am going to again introduce legislation, the Secure and Safe Asylum and Detention Act, to address these problems."