"Many of us have seen it, but because of political desires people that gain a political advantage from having the political support, they are pandering to and catering to people that they know are lawbreakers. And this tragedy was 100 percent preventable."
"Let's just call it full enforcement, then, so I don't run out of time."
"If we can build interstate highway for $4 million a mile, we could take a third of that budget down there."
"We're spending $13 billion on our southern border to secure our border."
"I want to ask, have you sat down or do you have people in your Department that have sat down and calculated the resources necessary to enforce all of the law?"
"That's an appalling thing to me, and this Congress rose up and rejected that decision."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate this hearing, and I appreciate the witnesses."
"The testimony by Ms. Trujillo indicated instances of commodities being stolen in East Africa."
"I am also interested: is there essentially a holistic view of this, particularly in Africa..."
"It did not trouble me and it does not trouble me if I see a residential home sitting in the middle of an asphalt parking lot at a shopping mall out of respect to the Fifth Amendment and the property r..."
"I believe that it struck three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use.'"