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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

we need legislation to ban them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We need legislation.

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.

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