Alejandro Mayorkas

Senator, we make our decisions as we consider to be most effective in furtherance of our mission and not because of pressure by outside groups.

We are not telling you not to come. We are just telling you that we are putting a system back in place in which you can come.

It is my view that individuals who commit sex offenses should be apprehended and removed.

We are dedicated to an orderly, safe, and humane immigration system, and, therefore, we stopped the prior administration's policy of expelling the unaccompanied children.

We have tremendous vetting capabilities in the Department of Homeland Security and across the Federal enterprise.

That program should have been built up rather than torn down.

In my view, it was antithetical to not only our values and our principles, but also our operational needs.

The Safe Third Country Agreements, in my opinion, put children in harm's way.

Senator, the decisions with respect to expulsion flights are ours because of the decisions that we have made based on the reasons that we think are necessary to execute on our mission.

Access to counsel is a core principle in the administration of justice, and we are dedicated to achieving that across our enterprise.

The reason why the Safe Third County Agreements were terminated is because there was nothing safe about them.

I have never said that the border is open, and I have never believed that it should be an open border.

We are complying with the court order, Senator.

They did nothing to facilitate addressing the surge. What they did was they dismantled the tools that we had to address it.

Senator, we are addressing the claims of the ACLU.

The most sustainable solutions to our challenge at the border including addressing the root causes that drive people to migrate in the first place.

False narratives, the spread of false narratives are used to fuel extremist ideologies.

The fact of the matter is that we are vigilant in guarding against foreign terrorist influences through all avenues, not just, of course, our land borders, but air and maritime.

We're focused on the greatest threats to public safety because we do not have limited resources.

False narratives create a lack of confidence in our democratic institutions and sometimes worse and those false narratives can lead people who are predisposed to violence to commit acts of violence against our institutions and tragically…

The criminal justice system is based on qualitative outcomes, not quantitative.

We can secure our border and we can effectively combat the rise of domestic violent extremism.

It is time for that reform to be enacted.

We absolutely do not continue the cruel and extraordinarily inhumane policy of the past.

We made a decision because the President and this Administration is dedicated not only to a safe and orderly immigration system but one that is humane, as well, to not expel children.