Beto O'Rourke

I gave you two reasons on that Arizona Border Surveillance. No life-cycle costs and no clear metrics for what that is supposed to achieve after spending up to $700 million.

What are we going to do now that we know the consequences of lack of access, delay, and ultimately denial really is what we are talking about in care and lack of accountability?

Fort Bliss offers the Army opportunities to adapt, innovate, and achieve its near-term readiness priorities.

I appreciate that. I want to commend you and our new Secretary for this greater level of transparency...

We really appreciate the work that they do, in spite of all of that.

I want to thank the panelists here today from CBP and from ICE.

We have doubled the size of the Border Patrol.

Not that the United States needs to bear that burden on its own, but just so that we know what that number is.

I appreciate you convening this hearing and so quickly exploring legislative options so soon after these vulnerabilities have been exposed.

I would think every country in the world and every person in the world who gets on an airplane has a shared interest in us resolving this.

I think that is--especially that last part is a smart investment in Mexico.

It has become a democracy. Since 2000 it has a robust, functioning democracy, something that was unheard of a generation ago.

El Paso and San Diego are among the two of the 10 safest cities in the United States.

We have a very strong interest in him being brought to justice.

We must manage this satisfactorily, we must have a deterrent that puts law and the rule of law on the front of our approach to these problems.

We have sent them Black Hawk helicopters, you know, kind of law enforcement material.

What is going to change, in all reality?

El Paso is the safest city today; it has been for the last 4 years. That is, I think, in large part because of the large immigrant population we have in our community, not in spite of that.

I want to thank Mr. Dinkins and the government of Mexico and everyone involved in the capture of Chapo Guzman.

I wanted to start by following up on a comment made by my colleague and hopefully help disabuse him and anyone else who might hold the notion that we can somehow conflate immigrants and aspiring citizens with criminality, drug dealers, and…

It has improved since then thanks to Mr. John Mendoza and his wonderful team of doctors, nurses, and front-line staff in El Paso, but it is in desperate need of improvement.

Our Ranking Member on the committee, Ms. Jackson Lee also brought up the issue that we are seeing a surge in activity...

I have to agree with much of what my friend from California just said. El Paso, Texas, just had its primary elections this past week. In El Paso, the turnout was 11 percent. So really one of the smallest minorities of citizens who are able…

We need to improve claims' turnaround times out of the Waco regional office.

I hope to build on that with other Members with a bill that we will be introducing shortly...