I would suggest that people go down to the border and visit. I think you will see that they are refugees, too.

I have even had on what was my farm. We once caught a 12-foot python that had consumed three of my chickens.

DACA is a program that Secretary Johnson testified before this Committee as a success very recently.

Just yesterday, Speaker Boehner wrote the President asking him to send troops to the border, to send National Guard troops to the border. To do what? These are children. They need help, not a gun in their face.

No matter who you think is at fault, the fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of kids arriving at our border each day, hungry, thirsty, often traumatized by the journey.

I am astonished and ashamed that this Committee is going to have a trip to visit the centers in Texas and has this hearing and prejudges the very expedition that we're taking out next week.

We need to fix our immigration system and invest in this part of the world to get to the root of the problem in this crisis.

I think we can all agree that we have a crisis on our hands. It's profoundly disappointing, however, that some of my colleagues are using this crisis as an excuse for inaction.

I think we need to do a better job.

Thank you for your ongoing review, as well as your willingness to meet with the different caucuses who are trying to pass and move forward on comprehensive immigration reform.

Don't you think that allowing him to stay would be in the spirit of the DACA program?