"All right. Mr. Jeronimo, we continue to deal with obviously a large flow of methamphetamines coming into the country from Mexico."
"It is rare for us to have CBP and GSA sitting at the same table together."
"So your assumption is, at this point, if we have multiple agencies that come through, and obviously our land ports of entries do, CBP not being the owner, GSA being a third-party owner is a better mod..."
"That is the $100,000 amount?"
"So let me tell you what I hear, because I have visited, over the last 7 years, a lot of different land ports of entry."
"Because we cannot have a situation where it takes 7 years to be able to move things through the study phase when we have tremendous needs."
"I would love to be able to maintain this conversation, to be able to keep this going, because this is one that needs to be resolved."
"There are serious issues that we have to be able to resolve there, and I would like to have an ongoing dialogue."
"I know that is an allocation of priorities, and it is always going to be great if Congress will give us a little more money."
"If we have everything on our side of the border ready to go and Mexico does not have their portion ready to go, that is not going to matter."
"We have seen before, with areas like when Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was announced, the coyotes used that moment to be able to work families in Central America and say, 'If you get ..."
"We had another enormous surge, which has not really slowed, during the Biden administration, with individuals that have been told who knows what from Central America and other countries as they are be..."