And, oh, by the way, oh, by the way, maybe if we had a border security wall, that would help as well, because not all these people are coming to ports of entry.

At some point, at some point we have to get past all this and focus on what is driving the problem, and we all know what it is: Flores has to be fixed, the asylum law has to be--the loopholes, that has been to be addressed.

Does accusing CBP agents of torture help with the crisis?

Does denying money for ICE beds help with the problem?

We're willing to work with anyone to fix that one thing which would be the most immediate thing we could do to help with the situation on the border.

Make no mistake. The Democrats have only changed their tune because the facts simply cannot be ignored any more.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice have given 31,000 pages of documents to the Congress. They provided witnesses. In fact, we have another one coming in for a…

Mr. Chairman, today's hearing is politics, pure politics, orchestrated by a left-wing advocacy organization to silence one of the President's top advisors.

I hope the Democrats will stop their obsession with attacking the President and will actually work collaboratively to fix this crisis.

For months they declared there wasn't even a crisis on the border.

Instead of giving a platform to a convicted felon, we could have come here to address the border crisis.

the actions you took when you were Director of ICE were entirely consistent with the law of the land, weren't they?

This is not about politics. It's always been about preserving the integrity of our border and preventing the humanitarian crisis that we are all now witnessing.

But if anyone is in the United States of America unlawfully, then they are, in fact, an illegal.

We have to get serious about this problem at the border.

We cannot embrace a policy, and I quote, 'not deport those who enter or remain in this country illegally unless they commit a crime.'

When a Member of Congress says abolish ICE, when another Member of Congress says abolish DHS, when the Speaker of the House says walls are immoral, when the person who gave the State of the Union response to the President's State of the…

This is not a manufactured crisis. This is a problem that is getting worse every day.

Just yesterday the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee gratuitously and erroneously accused our Border Patrol agents of committing negligent homicide.

If Democrats are serious about solving the border crisis, then let's address the Flores settlement agreement, let's address asylum loopholes and the other statutory and judicial constraints.

Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Engel called the situation a fake crisis at the border.

House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler: There is no crisis at the border.

Representative Doggett called the situation a phony border crisis.

Representative Sanford Bishop called it a crisis that does not exist.

It is not helpful to use this crisis that so many denied and called manufactured now to score political points.