Summer Lee

The time to end the shameful practice of racial profiling has come.

I am a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform that is a holistic view of access to citizenship, but also the strong handling of the border.

Knowledge is actually power. I indicated how long I have been on this committee, and it was at a time when our Border Patrol Agents were at a very small number.

That was the underlying premise of the legislation that we drafted a year or 2 ago, which is actually action.

While figures are important, I can see it and I can feel it on a daily basis whether it is working or not.

I think that you would have a more humanitarian approach if you stopped the traffic at the border.

I feel like this is my country, and National security is at risk.

Let's get something that works.

It insisted on 90-percent operational control--and I would always be eager to raise that number.

I have heard you. I am from Texas. I have spent a lot of time on the border.

The Border Security Results Act of 2013...offers a realistic, practical, measured, and cost-effective approach to achieving the border security that all Americans desire.

The Jackson Lee and Candice Miller bill, H.R. 1417, the Border Results Act of 2013, was a bipartisan comprehensive border security bill that should have gone before the House for a vote as part of a comprehensive immigration reform measure.

I will never forget September 11, 2001 when 2,977 men, women, and children were murdered by 19 hijackers who took commercial aircraft and used them as missiles.

I welcome today's witnesses: Peggy Davis, Private Citizen; Gary Brasher, Private Citizen; Dr. Elyse Golob, Executive Director, National Center for Border Security and Immigration, The University of Arizona; and Christian Ramirez, Director…

I, too, am concerned about the potential for civil liberties violations and potential racial profiling at such checkpoints.

I look forward to hearing from the new chief of the Border Patrol, Mark Morgan, about how he is deploying Border Patrol personnel and resources to meet these challenges.

I do want to put on the record that we are in great need of the voting rights restoration.

I do think that was a terrorist act. It was an individual intending to terrorize, it might have been hate, racial hate, using a weapon of war.

I take the responsibilities of the Homeland Security Department, the Department of Justice, FBI, ... very seriously.

Help me assure the American people, Mr. Secretary, that ... we are not creating another cumbersome large bureaucracy.

I introduced the No Fly for Foreign Terrorists, and it answers Mr. Duncan's questions in terms of looking on the TSDB.

Let me ask unanimous consent to put in the record, Bloomberg News, 'Edward Snowden and the NSA: A Lesson About Insider Threats.'

I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Mr. Snowden was lodged somewhere in the back corners of a Hawaii office building.

I think that Snowden has to be one of the most severe and outrageous responses or actions that we had in security.