Jeh Johnson

The current situation amounts to amnesty. We want people to be accountable, to come out of the shadows, get on the books, and pay taxes for the 3-year period of deferred action.

I hope the Congress will act to fund that and to fund the expanded flights, the repatriation, that we have developed since last summer.

The new phenomenon that I see that I'm very concerned about is somebody who's never met another member of that terrorist organization, never trained at one of the camps, who is simply inspired by the social media, the literature, the…

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson called the move a precautionary step.

We have to stay focused on a range of terrorist threats.

I have personally engaged in recruitment efforts, and have encouraged young people in graduate schools in the cyber corridor in northern Louisiana, Georgia Tech, and other places, to consider a career or at least a short period of time…

I think I speak for my colleagues when I say none of us downplay or underestimate the risk of, or the concern of a terrorist or terrorist organization infiltrating our homeland.

I believe that--if an earned path to citizenship would have become law, that would encourage people to come forward and submit to a background check, so that they can get on the books.

I think that ISIL represents a huge threat to our interests.

I think we have made tremendous progress in 13 years, and we will keep working on it.

I just lost a very, very valued member of my cybersecurity team to Citigroup.

I do not believe that building a wall across the entire Southwest Border is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.

I do not intend to lift that prohibition at this time.

Yes, absolutely, we need to be concerned about all the ways in which someone can enter this country for the purpose of carrying out a terrorist attack.

These groups are in competition with one another for attention, for fundraising, for recruitment.

I agree with the FBI director that the suspension of passports should be considered on a case-by-case basis.

I think the principal means is our grant-making activity.

I do think that in any situation where there are a large number of people who are undocumented, there is a risk that--it hinders our ability to track those individuals.

ISIL is obviously the most prominent terrorist organization on the world stage right now.

They go there for one purpose. They're motivated and recruited for another extremist purpose in the west, come back to their country and then may think about coming to ours.

When I was in Guatemala 2 days ago, it was a rather awkward moment, frankly, standing next to the president of that country, telling his citizens 'don't come to our country, because if you do, we will send you back, and it is dangerous to…

What will it address? What am I being asked to pay for?

Senator, public messaging is critical here, for the reasons Ambassador Shannon said.

This request has the right focus on deterrence, added detention, and removal, and removal more quickly than we have done in the past.

I believe we can and we will stem this recent tide of illegal migration into the Rio Grande Valley sector.