Alejandro Mayorkas

Words like that increase the threat to minority groups, Congressman.

It is to fund the police.

To say that we are doing nothing is an absolute falsehood.

The impact on morale would be quite negative.

Our hemisphere is gripped by an unprecedented level of migration since World War II.

We're dealing with a broken system, and we need reform.

The challenge that this drug, the death and destruction that this drug causes has been building year over year for a number of years.

Congressman, if our budget were reduced, as you identify, it would seriously, it would gravely harm our ability to apprehend individuals who are attempting to cross our border illegally.

It is my testimony that the border is secure.

The policies of the past administration, those that were cruel and inhumane, not only did not achieve operational control

Congresswoman, that was President Trump.

We are asking for $1.4 billion to honor the promise of pay fairness for our TSA work force.

They want a headline or a photo op. They want a political wedge issue and something to talk to their deep-pocketed donors about more than they want to work together to get things done.

Republicans seem intent on making a hard job even harder, maybe because they think berating the Secretary will get them their 5 minutes on Fox.

The Biden administration inherited a Department of Homeland Security beleaguered by 4 years of politicization and mismanagement.

I most certainly am, Senator, and I can assure you that FEMA is dedicated to achieving equity, speed, simplicity, accessibility.

Our asylum system is broken. Our entire immigration system is broken and in desperate need of reform, and it has been so for years and years.

We are the greatest country in the world and the land of opportunity.

I have directed review of both the SEAR rating process and the UASI risk formula process.

A regional challenge requires a regional solution.

There is no such thing as a small act of hate. When one group is targeted, we are all targeted.

The asylum system is broken, and our entire immigration system is broken.

I have tremendous admiration for the workforce of the Department of Homeland Security.

The H-2B Visa Program, the Seasonal Non-agricultural Worker Program, is in desperate need of legislative reform.

This is the single greatest challenge that we face as a country. More than 70,000 people, Americans, died last year from fentanyl overdose deaths.