"Customs and Border Protection morale is suffering--agents work long hours in extreme conditions."
"You have candidly acknowledged in responses to questions already that we do not have operational control of the border."
"It is inconsistent with what I've heard over and over from administration officials so far."
"Certainly they impact--in our profession, it's the absence of crime and disorder that defines success."
"If our policy continues to profit them and build them and build the people they can abuse and manipulate for their own purposes, couldn't they strengthen in the United States to the point that they're..."
"I hear that $15 billion of income comes to the cartel just from the fees for people to come across."
"the administration's policy of releasing illegals in the United States as opposed to detaining them and removing them is the cause and the driver of the crisis at the border"
"There's too many rapes. There's too many violent crimes that are committed upon those women and children that are moved into this country."
"Most of them perfectly fine people and they want to abide by the law, but they're all under the thumb of a cartel."
"The Mexican cartels own Mexico, that's the bottom line, through intimidation, hyperviolence, coercion, and frankly, corruption."
"Smuggling migrants at the border is now a billion-dollar business."