"we know that earlier this week DHS released its national encounters by month."
"Do you believe that all 9 sectors are secure?"
"I think that your agency is not enforcing the law, Mr. Mayorkas, and I think that you can do a better job."
"March marks the 12th straight month that we have had more than 200,000 encounters"
"I thought was very truthful, very forthcoming, when he said that he could not testify before this committee that the border was secure."
"I think clearly that we are seeing a humanitarian crisis along the southwest border."
"I applaud you for your budget request asking for additional agents."
"I think the agents that work along the southwest border are underpaid."
"Chief Ortiz in March testified... that five of the nine sectors along the southwest border, in his opinion, were not secure."
"It appears to me that Customs and Border Patrol... is asking for a 7.5 percent decrease from the funds that were received last Congress."
"So, when title 42 goes down, we will immediately start doing enhanced expedited removal across the southwest border, but it is going to take some time for that consequence to take effect in my opinion..."
"I do not see any circumstance where I can go back to the people that elected me and tell them that our border is secure."