"Having quality infrastructure in Los Angeles is not just important for those who call it home, as do I, but it is important for the entire country."
"I know you've been in this position for only about 48 hours and I appreciate your candor with this Committee during the course of this open hearing."
"According to the strategic plan from 2012 through 2016 of CBP, my understanding is that the priorities include, in this order: first, preventing terrorists and weapons from entering the United States;..."
"it is technology--and, depending on where you go from there, it is infrastructure and personnel."
"One of the things that we learned in documenting this report is that trafficking takes place because there has been an investment in that, as we have discussed."
"basic principles of capitalism tell us that wherever there is a demand, there will be a supply."
"When we are talking about the trafficking of guns, of drugs, and of human beings--there have been many people, including, I believe, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that have ack..."
"I saw photographs of tunnels with walls as smooth as the walls in this Committee room, lined with air-conditioning and lighting, which made an obvious point very clear: that there is a large investmen..."
"Nothing."
"immigration reform we believe would go far toward advancing fairness and economic growth overall."
"President Trump's Executive order would reduce our Nation's cumulative GDP over 10 years by $4.7 trillion."