Summer Lee

The executive actions are in actuality a reflection of those laws being faithfully executed.

I would prefer him not to be called 'Obama' and to honor the office which he holds.

I hope that this committee, that we have overlapping jurisdiction, will ramp up the dollars that will intervene in that radical heinous ideology.

I frankly think this is an important discussion, and many front-line DHS employees will be, in essence, hindered from their work without the full funding of this committee.

It is my hope that you will make the point to your colleagues and leadership who are holding the funding for a key agency...

It is important that my Republican colleagues act responsibly, stop playing politics, and pass a clean DHS funding bill.

I consider ISIS barbaric.

If you are a child, you should never be charged as a prostitute if you are under the age of consent.

There is no room for racial profiling anywhere in this country, nor should it be occurring.

But if your law were more restrictive, would you want to be under that law just for the rights of the citizens involved?

I believe its laws are important laws that exude liberty and justice.

It is especially appropriate that we start with this topic because today's hearing concerns foundational principles with respect to the relationship between government and its citizens.

I look forward to working with you, and I commend you for calling the first hearing of this Subcommittee in the 114th Congress to focus on the important issue of asset forfeiture.

Thank you for noting the defect of the legislation and the importance of moving forward on comprehensive immigration reform.

We are concerned and very interested in making sure that we take the right pathway.

The agriculture industry is tantamount to a major contributor to the economy.

I think E-Verify is perfectly okay, but bringing in an electronic employment verification system to agriculture presents some unusual problems.

E-Verify cannot be made mandatory for all employers until having first enacted comprehensive immigration reform, because E-Verify without that would have devastating though unintended consequences.

I would additionally like to submit into the record documentation from the Executive Office of Immigration Review indicating that in the time period of July 18, 2014, and December 23, unaccompanied children had a 14 percent absence rate.

I would like to enter into the record data from the Customs and Border Protection indicating that apprehensions of unaccompanied children have gone down 38 percent in 2015 from the same time last year.

I would like to enter a number of documents into the record, please.

But do you think it is appropriate, no matter whether those kids came at this time--are you denying this, that you did not say that there was not a scene with these youngsters?

This indicates that an individual by the name of Ms. Cortes, who was a victim of domestic violence, was stopped by some of your officers and, rather than allowing her to show her papers, was immediately put into detention.

It was reported that as these bus loads of children came, it was determined that these children were youngsters going to a YMCA Triangle Y Camp.

I do want to say that not funding the Department of Homeland Security for this year and beyond is certainly not the answer.