Alejandro Mayorkas

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We need legislation.

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 need legislation to ban them.

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

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

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

We need legislation.

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

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

I understand the urgency of addressing the Houlton Station.

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

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

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

We have brought unprecedented force to that effort.

The model that we are implementing is a model of building safe, orderly, and lawful pathways to come to the United States.

We need legislation.

we're very worried about the condition of the DRF, in fiscal year 2023.