"When somebody is asking for asylum, don't they all have to do is just touch the riverbank?"
"I certainly ask you that whatever monies that we added for technology, the non-intrusive, move on that as much as possible."
"Most of the drugs that we have coming in are coming through ports of entry."
"I always say I don't go visit the border, I live at the border."
"I would ask you to please look at title 8, expedited removal, when they are under custody under DHS."
"As I mentioned, this is a program that, when our former chair, Kay Granger and myself were in Laredo, we saw the needs for this so we established this, I think 2013 or 2014."
"One of the tools, legal tools, that you have at your disposal is the use of expedited removal."
"I just want to add, when I said CBP, I meant DHS custody, would mean CBP and, of course, ICE."
"There is still the limit of the amount of money we have."
"I look forward to discussing with you the present fiscal year 2025 budget request."
"The two last appropriation bills where we added $1.4 billion to CBP, every single person on the other side of the aisle, except for two that are still in Congress, voted no for that extra money."