"The problem we have, Mr. Chairman, is if we legalize the agricultural workforce, give legal status without securing our border, and changing our asylum laws first, you will have a run on this country ..."
"Yes."
"You find a way to keep them here on our terms without making other problems worse."
"Here's the deal. Half the people working here illegally, if they left tomorrow, we would be hosed."
"If they all left tomorrow, what would happen to the agricultural community?"
"I really feel like this hearing, as important as the subject is we're talking about, is almost a parody when it comes to how much our current system has failed."
"I'm skeptical that that could happen. And one reason why is because the Biden administration's current policies are a magnet for illegal immigration."
"They got caught. They wanted it to be true, Mr. Chairman."
"Whether you like Trump or not, what happened in the FBI is just mind-boggling."
"Yes. I mean, as a judge, did you buy what he was saying?"
"For the past 20 years, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee has closely followed the rise of China and authored and included in its annual appropriations bills numerous pro..."
"Do you believe our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan embolden our enemies?"