Summer Lee

I would ask that you would ask the President of the United States to consider that $44 billion is shameful.

We need help down in Texas. We need more FEMA, DRCs. We need more people dealing with the appeal process. It is absolutely absurd.

Thank you Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Thompson for convening this hearing and affording us, the Homeland Security Committee, the opportunity to hear testimony on 'World-wide Threats: Keeping America Secure in the New Age of Terror.'

The proliferation of such guns do make it a little more dangerous.

Over the past year Russian actors targeted U.S. election infrastructure.

DHS's voluntary programs are only as good as the participants make them.

Will you pull back on your position on mandatory minimums?

We have found that mandatory minimums and over-incarceration has been the history of criminal justice.

Why is there an attack on Black activists versus any reports dealing with the alt-right and the White nationalists?

I have no reason to doubt these young women.

Democrats stand ready to work with Administrator Pekoske to ensure that TSA has the resources necessary to effectively train and maintain the workforce it needs to carry out its vital mission.

I believe we are obligated to protect them and to protect their space of learning.

You do not have a right to exist. You do not have the right to your own land. Israel should not exist.

There were good people on both sides or both sides had violence.

This material is available at the Committee and can be accessed on the Committee Repository.

Would you think that this approach that may be being proposed by the administration of quotas, meaning that judges have a cycle of which they have to meet, and meet certain numbers of processing cases, would that be effective if a child…

But common sense would say, if you just-- not on the facts, and that's an answer that we as lawyers give--common sense, if you just were in the back of the room and that was the end of the case, would you argue that that child needed at…

I was actually at the border with my colleague, Congresswoman Lofgren, and we saw children who were fleeing persecution.

I would encourage you to raise that number and the administration to raise that number.

I hope that I will place on the record the concern that many of us have that we've not begun to look at the questions of obstruction of justice, collusion in the 2016 election with Russia.

The myth of taking in terrorists will continue to abound in this particular administration.

There is a Muslim ban proposed by this administration, as evidenced by the stance that the Attorney General has been taking in the courts, although they have been defeated.

I can probably, with great comfort, say that this is probably the worst time in American history as it relates to the rights of immigrants.

The treatment of refugees under this administration has diminished. It has frankly deteriorated.

I really do--as I look, these are public servants, and I thank you for your service.