"Your policies are causing it, Mr. Secretary. Congress set an objective in law. You haven't pursued it."
"It is amazing to me, if you think back to that language, and it has been referred to here today, that was in the 9/11 Commission report that the system was blinking red."
"I want to revisit--since Representative Titus sort-of ridiculed or trivialized what you said about the terrorism risk, uncontrolled Southern Border."
"I am never told why they think that. I am never shown data to indicate the numerosity of those threats versus others or the likelihood of their carrying something out."
"I said, thank you, Director Abizaid. Does the NCTC assess a significant threat from the historic level of uncontrolled crossing at the Southern Border?"
"That is what I get. You get these assessments, but we have seen intel failures all across time."
"Ambassador Sales, I want to revisit--since Representative Titus sort-of ridiculed or trivialized what you said about the terrorism risk, uncontrolled Southern Border."
"I was glad to hear you raise the question whether an uncontrolled Southern Border poses a security risk to the United States."
"I just was sitting here tallying, and I used a figure of 600,000 gotaways."
"The Northern Border is experiencing a huge increase in illegal migrant encounters."
"Customs and Border Protection morale is suffering--agents work long hours in extreme conditions."