"I want to thank the panelists here today from CBP and from ICE."
"We really appreciate the work that they do, in spite of all of that."
"We have doubled the size of the Border Patrol."
"I appreciate that. I want to commend you and our new Secretary for this greater level of transparency..."
"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."
"Not that the United States needs to bear that burden on its own, but just so that we know what that number is."
"El Paso and San Diego are among the two of the 10 safest cities in the United States."
"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 citiz..."
"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."
"We have a very strong interest in him being brought to justice."