Kathleen Rice

Building it will not stop the majority of dangerous drugs that are coming through our legal ports of entry.

What we discuss today will help the committee address the issues at the border in a productive manner.

The Trump administration's family separation policy has irreparably damaged children.

To consider levying fees on individuals fleeing dire conditions in their home countries is cruel and completely blind to the reality these individuals are facing.

Wait times have reached record highs, creating a sense of wariness and uncertainty with our vital trade partners in Mexico.

The issue we face right now is a leadership and management problem.

The administration's border policies coupled with the President's threats to close the border altogether and his incendiary immigration rhetoric have created utter chaos and confusion at our ports of entry.

Well, it is also not going to prevent anyone from crossing and reaching American soil.

It has been proven that restricting access to firearms may reduce suicide rates.

I just think it is the most insane policy that there is any man or woman who wore the uniform of this country... is ineligible for some kind of... access to health care.

If you look at--there is no question that firearms are one of the most common means of completing suicide among the general population, and 69 percent of veterans have completed suicide via firearm.

It's just so horrible to hear the president talk about these people the way that he does, like they're some kind of contagion that he's going to drop on these cities when all he has to do is look no further than Mar-a-Lago for hard-working…

This is as un-American as you get.

The one issue that fires up his base is to talk about immigration.

You can't have it both ways. Stephen Miller cannot draw all of -- decide what the policies are going to be at the Department of Homeland Security and then hide behind executive privilege saying, no, no, no, I'm just a White House employee…

I think one of the biggest issues is how we help members transition from Active duty back to civilian life.

Secretary Nielsen today briefly stated that she was going resign so that she could spend more time with her family. Oh, the irony. Because every time she's seen now, she's going to be the woman who separated families.

So, Anderson, I am just appalled by what the president is talking about.

He could, but thankfully the saner people, there are still some, I believe, in the administration convinced him that would be an economic disaster.

Trump owns his immigration policy.

Let him explain to the American people why he wants to go back to ripping babies out of their mothers' arms.

It's a foreign policy philosophy that says we're going to give you money to allow you to build an infrastructure in your own country that will give your people the ability to live a wonderful life in their own home and not make them feel…

What the President of the United States is doing and Secretary Nielsen is beyond speakable.

For the past 2 years, the Trump administration has not taken any substantive steps to address the agency's startling number of vacancies.

However broad Executive Actions, such as the President's travel ban, are not the solution. In fact, they are counterproductive and make us less safe.