James Lankford

But they are departing from you within 72 hours at that point?

When they are being given notices to appear these days, those notices are for 2 and 3 years down the road

The current asylum system is not working the way that it is set up, and it has become an incentive.

We are well over 1 million people in the asylum backlog, and as I mentioned before, we are 3 years before people will actually get to a court hearing.

I look forward to working with Senator Sinema and my colleagues to strengthen our border security.

I do look forward to working with you during the session, and I know your work ethic and the things that you take on.

Most of the individuals then coming to you have an ankle monitor or some kind of link at that point, when they come to you?

At this point, for you and your organization, are you gearing up more staff? Are you gearing up more facilities?

This is a very serious issue that several of you have talked about--172,000 encounters last month, 172,000 and climbing.

Let me ask Mr. Jones about how do we disrupt the flow of drugs coming across the border?

The individuals who are coming to you in Phoenix, are these folks that are being delivered to you by Border Patrol, or how are they coming to you?

Senator Murkowski from Alaska said that right now Russia is providing more energy to the United States than is Alaska.

Choosing to use the tax code to intentionally destroy America's fossil fuel industry, to hurt our economy, to force more American workers to lose their jobs, and to strengthen the economic power of the government's of China, Venezuela…

The provisions threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of American workers.

But the field office may not make a decision without DC actually signing off on it. Is that correct?

So help me understand. What's different about--why is this memo needed then if this is exactly the same as it has been in the past?

So they cannot make a decision on those. That has to wait.

This letter appears to mean that no decisions can be made in the field office until DC signs off.

So can a field office make a decision on a right-of-way now?

There is not a sign-off, but it's a don't make a decision until we tell you.

If China claims that it is a co-equal partner in the global community with the United States, it needs to treat itself like one at the WTO.

They limit free access to faith, free access to a free press, free access to assembly.

All of those things are common in China, not to mention the prison camps of the Uyghurs and the multitude of other issues that they have done, as we have talked about, economically, today.

I have to tell you, in this day and age I am amazed at the number of American companies that are still looking to China to do manufacturing, after all the intellectual property that they have stolen, after their immense human rights abuses…

They do forced abortions on individuals and limit the number of children that families can have.