DHS will remain focused on strengthening its partnerships across every level of government, the private sector, and the diverse communities we serve to enhance together our collective prevention capabilities nationwide.

As I have said before, the Department of Homeland Security is fundamentally a department of partnerships.

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

We must secure the Southwest Border by addressing the root causes of migration.

We need to do more. We need to deliver stability and resources to these families.

We are going to achieve so much under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris.

We will restore humanity, order, and safety to our country`s immigration system.

We have an obligation to the Department of Homeland Security to reflect the nation that we want to achieve.

We really do need Congress to pass immigration reform. It is essential that we do so.

Yesterday was a remarkable day. We were able to reunite sons and daughters with their mothers and their fathers.

President Biden from day one directed us to get it done and do whatever it takes to get it done.

the impacts of the climate emergency on both our National and collective global security are vast.

If we can spend a dollar on prevention, we will save much more on the costs of recovery.

When the public health imperative no longer exists, we no longer can use that authority.

You have a right to that data and we will provide it to you.

We are working on a landscape of a completely broken immigration system that everyone agrees is broken.

Our objective, in fact our commitment, is a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system.

We are building back our asylum program but we are building it back better.

I am very well aware of Camp Matamoros. It was quite notorious for regrettable reasons, for the conditions in that camp.

Smart and effective law enforcement is not to be measured quantitatively. It is to be measured qualitatively.

the new reality that we have to come to terms with is that our extremists here at home... pose the greatest threat.

domestic violent extremism represents the greatest threat in the homeland right now.

domestic violent extremism represents the 'greatest threat in the homeland right now.'

Federal and State authorities managed to disrupt a plot by at least 14 men to kidnap and kill our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

the threat is compounded by tech platforms that make radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization easier.