Alejandro Mayorkas

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.

We have surged resources to an unprecedented degree to detect, to interdict the fentanyl.

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

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

More than 90 percent actually is being trafficked through the ports of entry at our southern border.

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.

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

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

We have seen nothing like the toxicity of fentanyl that is killing so many Americans.

We need a tremendous number of additional personnel, which is why the fiscal year 2024 budget provides for increased numbers of those personnel across the enterprise.

We built lawful, safe, and orderly pathways for them to come to the United States.

The procurement process is far too slow.

We are taking a multi-pronged approach to our attack against the cartels that traffic in fentanyl.

We are very focused on that element as well.

It was unequivocally false that fentanyl is being brought to the United States by non-citizens encountered in between the ports of entry who are making claims of credible fear and seeking asylum.

We are executing our plan on the border.

It is vitally important, as you and other Members of this committee know who have championed this imperative, public-private partnership is the bedrock, the foundation of the cybersecurity ecosystem.

We remain committed to enhancing the security of our border every single day.

When there is a deliberate effort to not coordinate, it can and indeed has been quite counterproductive.

I want to work in a bipartisan way to address the need to enhance our border security.

We absolutely do not.

our message has been clear that the border is in fact not open

I would note that the Intercept article focuses attention on the disinformation activities that preceded our administration.