we spent about a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars over the last decade enforcing our immigration laws
What we need here is, I think, a truth campaign.
It's hard to remember that your job was to drain the swamp when you are up to your eyeballs in alligators.
Thank you for encouraging us to hold this hearing.
This is a shared responsibility. This should not be all on America's shoulders.
I put myself as a parent in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and I live in one of those communities with a lot of viole...
If we had taken that approach with Colombia some 20 years ago, a country I visited earlier this year, it would be a fail...
How do we get to the people and change that mindset?
As Chairman Carper noted, it must be a shared responsibility.
The Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill more than a year ago.
I am dismayed to hear some of our colleagues suggest that the answer is to cutoff funding for these countries.