Alejandro Mayorkas

We are woefully under-resourced in the Arctic, especially given adverse nation states' focus on the Arctic.

We need legislation.

We are focused on addressing the employers who abuse these children and other vulnerable individuals.

We have changed dramatically the way in which we conduct enforcement operations at worksites.

We have achieved greater processing efficiencies to ensure that we are able to transfer the unaccompanied children...

Our asylum system is fundamentally broken. Our whole immigration system is broken and I very much look forward to working with you on a bipartisan basis.

We have a scourge of fentanyl. I think it's more than 70,000 American lives that have been lost.

The President's budget seeks resources to hire 350 more Border Patrol agents.

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

We need more visas and we need a more nimble system to address varying degrees of urgency in the marketplace.

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.

We are woefully under-resourced in the Arctic, especially given adverse nation states' focus on the Arctic.

We need legislation.

We need legislation to ban them.

We have achieved greater processing efficiencies to ensure that we are able to transfer the unaccompanied children...

We have changed dramatically the way in which we conduct enforcement operations at worksites.

We are focused on addressing the employers who abuse these children and other vulnerable individuals.

I understand the urgency of addressing the Houlton Station.

Our asylum system is fundamentally broken. Our whole immigration system is broken and I very much look forward to working with you on a bipartisan basis.

We have brought unprecedented force to that effort, Ranking Member Britt.

We have surged resources to an unprecedented degree to detect, to interdict the fentanyl from coming and to investigate and prosecute the individuals who are traffickers.

We have a scourge of fentanyl. I think it's more than 70,000 American lives that have been lost.

It is coming through--I think that more than 90 percent actually is being trafficked through the ports of entry at our southern border, yes.

There is no question that the security of the southern border is an extraordinary challenge.

I think that 57,800 died in 2020, in the last year of the Trump Administration.