Lindsey Graham

Nobody wants unaccompanied children to be abused, to be put in labor environments that are unhealthy.

If you are really serious about countering China, and we all are, you have to show up, you have to show up and offer to people in the world an alternative to Belt and Road.

This noncontiguous policy is incentivizing this.

I'm willing to help them do more. I'm certainly willing to punish them if they don't.

This administration has to come to grips with the fact that their policies are failing miserably in this area.

When it comes to stopping the problem, you're going to need immigration reform.

I think it's broken, and I'd like to fix it.

The policies of this administration, Mr. Chairman, are not working.

Nobody wants unaccompanied children to be abused, to be put in labor environments that are unhealthy.

If you are really serious about countering China, and we all are, you have to show up, you have to show up and offer to people in the world an alternative to Belt and Road.

This administration has to come to grips with the fact that their policies are failing miserably in this area.

This noncontiguous policy is incentivizing this.

I think it's broken, and I'd like to fix it.

I'm willing to help them do more. I'm certainly willing to punish them if they don't.

The policies of this administration, Mr. Chairman, are not working.

Nobody wants unaccompanied children to be abused, to be put in labor environments that are unhealthy.

If you are really serious about countering China, and we all are, you have to show up, you have to show up and offer to people in the world an alternative to Belt and Road.

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.

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.

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 am not antagonistic to trying to find a solution to the agricultural dilemma of creating a more robust legal system so you can access legal workers.

The solution of legalizing millions of people in the agricultural community without first dealing with the broken border and a broken asylum system, I mean, I think, is ill-conceived.

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 that you've never seen.

You've been absolutely terrific.