"This is de facto amnesty, de facto amnesty."
"And they had better come well armed."
"this is significant."
"Well, last week, U.S. authorities at Arizona's six ports of entry along the border said that you are ill-equipped to screen vehicles and trains crossing into Mexico for smuggled weapons and cash."
"I would suspect he knows more about this than anybody else having been in charge over there."
"Well, I have been to San Ysidro, many of us have, and other ports."
"Are you telling me that you are checking every one of those vehicles to be sure it is not transporting guns or cash south into Mexico?"
"I am talking about 16 lanes of traffic going south, 2 miles long backed up, and you are checking every vehicle?"
"How many containers come to the U.S. from Mexico a year or a month or whatever?"
"If we had a way to know that it had been opened and tampered with by a truck driver who had been bought off by the cartel, would that not be a major advance?"
"It would be tremendous; would it not?"
"We started working on this when we first started this Subcommittee--even before that--and we have been on it now for, I don't know, 7, 8 or 9 years or more."