Blocking the admission of green card holders, who are doctors, scientists, business owners, and other valued members of our society, does nothing to make us safer.

I am just saying that he has indicated that it is a Muslim ban. So I can only take for what he is saying, he takes credit for drafting it.

Your people were not doing their job.

While we recognize that the future of the 'Muslim Ban' is presently a question for the Federal Judiciary, we have an obligation, as co-equal constitutional partners to the Executive and Judicial branch, to do robust oversight of the…

I would note that the urgent border security crisis facing our Nation is not occurring at our Southern Border, but rather is one of President Trump's own making.

The question that a lot of us have is why not come up with a sound policy that addresses border security rather than coming up with a product, in terms of a fence?

Instead, we need border security policy that keeps terrorists, their instruments, criminals, and contraband out of this country while upholding American values.

To the contrary, the Executive Order makes America less safe by serving as a recruitment and propaganda tool for terrorist groups.

We look forward to working with you to ensure that that a hearing is scheduled soon to receive testimony from Departmental officials, national and homeland security experts and the private sector.

The border wall concept is ineffective and creates a false sense of security that will do nothing to alleviate the problem.

The Department of Homeland Security has no matrix to show that border walls enhance security in a way that justifies their exorbitant cost.

I come before you today to implore you to seek other alternatives and opportunities other than the Border Wall proposal put forth by President Trump.

I am just concerned about this notion that because the court has ruled... they have somehow put this country at risk by this ruling.

Like the Muslim Ban, Trump's proposed 'border wall' will do little to better secure America's borders but will cost the Americans billions.

Like the Muslim ban, President Trump's proposed border wall will do little to better secure America's borders, but will cost Americans billions.

Putting the wall on the American taxpayers' credit card, knowing that Mexico has absolutely no intention of paying for it, will surely leave the American taxpayers stuck with the bill.

I come before you today to request that you seek other alternatives and opportunities other than the border wall proposal put forth by President Trump.

His Executive Order banning all travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and suspending our refugee program under the guise of security does nothing to make us safer.

President Trump's words and actions related to the Southern Border and the government and people of Mexico have been counterproductive, to put it mildly.

Utilizing a 14th-Century solution to address a 21st-Century problem makes no sense, especially as it is the most expensive of all possible alternatives or solutions.

We are writing to request that you hold a Full Committee hearing to examine President Trump's 'Muslim Ban' Executive Order.

No amount of fear-mongering via Twitter or alternative facts will change the fact that on January 27, with a stroke of a pen, President Trump changed this Nation's standing both at home and abroad.

His Executive Order banning all travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and suspending our refugee program under the guise of security does nothing to make us safer.

The urgent border crisis facing our Nation is not occurring at our Southern Border, but rather is a one of President Trump's own making.

Congress must pass legislation that ends the shameful practice of treating the 42,000 members of the TSO workforce as second-class civil servants.