She said airports were seeing 150 to 200 percent lines as long as we would normally expect. Was she wrong or were you wrong in what you gave your answer to Mr. Connolly?

Okay. And then putting aside what Mr. Gowdy brought up, the fact that we released 10 Level 1 aggravated felons, your answer to we haven't seen many major disruptions was yes.

You cannot plan on hopes. You got to decide.

Do you think maybe if you would have started planning sometime before this year--you had 20 months to get ready for it--do you think maybe we would not have to release 2,228 detainees, 629 who were criminals, 8 who were level 1 felons?

When did your Agency start planning for sequester?

I am asking what was the law of the land. And is it the practice for the Director of ICE to say, you know, what? We are not going to pay attention to what the law of the land says.

You knew that was going to happen on August 2, 2011. If you maybe planned for it, maybe you would not have to release 8 level 1 felons on the street.

Finding solutions to this problem is incumbent on the courts, businesses, the Patent and Trademark Office, and on this Congress.

The only way that can happen is if rhetoric is also matched by law, if in fact law is enforced and overseen.

I view it as a tremendous threat to our Fourth Amendment protections because it is the Government subsidizing privacy violations.

If Government agencies and the secretaries who head those agencies would spend more time implementing the IGs' recommendations and less time scaring the American people with all the political statements they have made regarding…