If this body were to run a $1 billion surplus, it would require 22,000 years of a $1 billion surplus to address a $22 trillion debt.

I hope America is watching, because this is exactly the kind of theater that this town has produced.

We have a duty to secure our border and the sovereignty of our Nation.

I thank our witnesses who traveled from the border to be here today to provide an on-the-ground perspective.

The passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 authorized the construction of border barriers for the first time in statute.

The Federal Government has an obligation to secure the homeland and protect the United States and its citizens from those who seek to do us harm.

There is no American here on either side that wants to interfere with the lives of American citizens.

These safeguards are in place for a reason. They should be observed.

Congressman Higgins, I have been in my house since 1968. We have never flooded.

This waiver authority was a deliberate act by the Congress to avoid endless years of litigation that would make construction impossible.

I support very deep consultations with you.

This waiver authority was a deliberate act by Congress to avoid endless years of litigation that would make construction impossible.

Standing upon principles of freedoms and liberties, protecting freedoms and liberties, and resisting and curtailing the manifestation of Big Brother, reducing and controlling the size and scope of Federal powers.

If that was a crisis, then there are no words for what we experienced at the border during fiscal year 2019.

The border crisis was the result of legal loopholes, activist judges, and propaganda from criminal killers who smuggle and traffick migrants for profit.

The crisis that unfolded along our Southwest Border last year was not a fake emergency, it is not the fault of the men and women of CBP, and it is not the fault of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Let us not forget that we must operate based upon the cornerstones that have defined America as we attempt to care for all of our children.

But they have the right to resist, do they not?

Even with our united efforts at an administration seeking to do the right thing the 2010 census missed some 2.1 percent of the black community.

I have descended into the belly of the beast. I have witnessed the terror within, and I rise committed to oppose the insidious forces which threaten our Republic. America is being severely injured by this betrayal, by this unjust and…

I would like to say that your leadership in holding this hearing is a positive sign.

I would like the Congresswoman to be aware that I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I would like to make the congresswoman from New York, my colleague, aware that I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am prepared to close. I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am also concerned by the partisan preconceptions surrounding the hearing title.