David Trone

Extreme Republicans do not want to acknowledge that securing our borders against drug trafficking and fixing our broken immigration system, they are not mutually exclusive.

Safe and orderly legal migration is in line with our shared American values and good for the communities, good for the economy.

If this committee does not provide that level of funding, what would be the consequence?

I think where the sheriff is going there is really right on point.

We are certainly going to get back to you and figure how to get that stuff out to our chambers of commerce, our rotaries.

In Maryland there were 340 breaches last year. So Maryland was the fifth worst in the country on breaches.

I just want to say it is a pleasure to be here on this subcommittee, and you folks always work well together.

We were not going to stop the precursors from China because China wasn't helping us.

Well, we appreciate that. And please keep up the work.

The President's budget put in $305 million for new, nonintrusive inspection technology to increase the efficiency of the 200,000 cars arriving daily without impacting business and critical trade.

President Biden's open border policies have made every town a border town and put our constituents--my constituents--at risk.

We look forward to working with you on this new rule coming in, again, provide the law and order, the border security, but at the same time, respect the rights of the asylum folks.

I feel that Title 8, if we do expedited work process and deportations when the case calls actually works better than title 42.

I do support Title 42, but I do understand that it is coming to an end.

The proposed emergency $4.7 billion Southwest Border Contingency Fund will only ensure that we will spend more hard-earned tax dollars to achieve the same results and less oversight from Congress.

That is a capricious number that you leverage up as you drive more throughput with more efficiency.

I absolutely agree with you 100 percent.

I think that is part of the problem because when you have got a line there for 2 hours, versus a normal line, all of a sudden, sometimes shortcuts get taken.

As someone who grew a business from employee one to 12,000 employees, I get it that you have got to recruit the best folks, the best talent for your team.

It would be a fool's errand to cut that, just inviting China, inviting Russia and the other nation-states to devastate our small businesses around the country.

They are helpless. And they get hit, they get ransomwared, they get shut down, and they can't absorb it.

We need CEOs and leaders to actually put the resources that they need into their cybersecurity and to really empower and resource their CIOs and CISOs.

But in Maryland there were 340 breaches last year. So Maryland was the fifth worst in the country on breaches.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Cuellar. I just want to say it is a pleasure to be here on this subcommittee, and you folks always work well together.

Frankly, that's not your--prioritization is not your job. It's ours.