"Throughout this committee's history, we have tried to work in a bipartisan manner to help combat human trafficking."
"I was pleased that President Biden signed into law that bill last year."
"We must never, ever return to the failed border and immigration policies of the last administration."
"Unfortunately, the current Republican Majority appears to be turning its back on bipartisan cooperation again."
"Given the hearing title, it's apparently lost on Republicans that it was actually the Trump administration's border policies that imposed devastating human costs."
"Under the Trump administration's unconscionable family separation policy, for example, over 5,500 children were taken from their parents at the border."
"family separation is bad, and I think it talks about our values as American citizens."
"Twenty-two years ago, everything we knew about our Nation's security changed."
"I am embarrassed for the Republican Majority wasting the committee's time on so-called investigations."
"This entire endeavor is nothing more than a political stunt hatched in back rooms."
"The Majority has proven itself to be uninterested in legislating and incapable of serious oversight."
"Repeating the same hearing over and over again until extreme MAGA Members get their way is not oversight."