"We know that there are 1,993 miles of border, 651 miles of fencing."
"I think GAO can do a better job with providing a more certain answer."
"I view that as a skill, and I don't like the issue of high skill/low skill."
"I want to welcome Representative Beto O'Rourke, who represents a district along the U.S.-Mexico border and knows first-hand the importance of border security"
"we put the skilled immigrants right there with the comprehensive immigration reform, and we will roll forward together."
"I think we cannot separate one from the other, and we cannot suggest that we must do one or the other."
"So if we were to pass a comprehensive immigration reform that included border security, had enforcement aspects delineated, so that as a trained ICE officer, you would know the distinction, that would..."
"If we pass comprehensive immigration reform and we established once and for all the parameters of the law, and it was the law, that would be more helpful to law enforcement such as yourself, is that n..."
"But you know that, sir, by the laws that the Congress of the United States passed."
"Essentially because the agency has told us that you can't enforce U.S. immigration law."
"And again, those numbers indicate 356,873 apprehensions on the Mexican border in 2012, up almost 9 percent."