"I appreciate your work on the strategic plan, number one."
"Do asylum officers take that in consideration where their fear could have been taken care of in country A, B, C, or D?"
"I think it will be key to get the other 60 percent of the Border Patrol folks out in the field to do Homeland."
"it is not a matter of how do we control the border, but how do we manage the border."
"I just asked my friends down there in the Rio Grande Valley and it is about the same, 50 to 60 percent of the Border Patrol agents are in the processing centers and not out in the fields."
"I would like to get your thoughts on this plan for restoring the joint task force."
"I passed the legislation to modernize the performance results legislation that President Clinton and Al Gore had set up in the 1990s."
"there are over one million final deportation orders that have still not been executed."
"Just to give you an idea, just 2,000 individuals in one day in one part."
"I live on the border. Like I always say, I don't come visit for a few hours; I live here."
"The Border Patrol Sector Laredo... has 60 percent of the Border Patrol that are not in the field."