"I am also a small group of Members of Congress that are immigrants."
"What I don't want to do is conflate asylum seekers with the flow of drugs."
"the American people are being misled by many Members of this committee and, in the process, are demonizing vulnerable people, including immigrants across this country."
"Real patriotism, American patriotism, is actually about helping people."
"I am hopeful at the next committee, at the next meeting that we are not using this committee for political stunts and for misinformation."
"Democrats care about human trafficking and taking it on. We care about a safe and secure border."
"the infrastructure bill included $430 million for Customs and Border Protection of which most Republicans in Congress voted against."
"a vast majority of the fentanyl entering the United States is actually by U.S. citizens at legal ports of entry."
"These broad attacks that we are hearing today on immigrants today, I believe is un-American."
"There is current election interference happening today by Russia and other actors."
"In the Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea has a massive supply of lithium."