Henry Cuellar

I would ask you again to look at those cuts and ask you to reconsider.

If we put in $1 of taxpayers' dollars, we expect to be able to measure that $1 that we gave you.

America's funding was cut by 49 percent.

I support their right to protest, but I asked them, well, if they get arrested, will they be sent back?

I support comprehensive immigration reform. I support the right to protest.

There is a provision that we added that says that every agency now for the first time, as they make their budget requests, the funding request to Congress, in consultation with the GAO, that they have to tie in for the first time the…

So we are doing what we have to do within the statute, within the law.

I hope we can work in a bipartisan way to find a solution to the men and women.

I appreciate what your men and women do. And I appreciate all of the good work.

Bottom line, ICE is not an organization that should be politicized. Its law enforcement mission is just too important to this Nation.

It upsets me that politically motivated policies and directives are creating an invitational posture at the border, and that this open invitation causes human suffering and law enforcement nightmares.

I would ask you to look at some of the joint operations.

I would ask you to look at the public-private partnership, because we want to see men and women in blue.

I think we need probably about $5 billion on infrastructure.

But the majority of those people coming over are coming over to spend money in the U.S.

We appreciate all the work that the men and women in green do.

Over 80 percent of all the goods and people that come into the U.S. come through land ports.

I have a lot of high hopes for you; you are smart. And we really appreciate looking--working with you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think we can do better than that.

I mean, I think that is the result or the impact that we are looking at.

I would venture to say, I mean, I would ask you to go back with your folks and look at this language that we added to the omnibus bill and ask you to look at what outcomes.

What I want to do is focus on performance.

In my judgment, this is one of the reasons why we need comprehensive immigration reform, both for the added border security that it would provide and, frankly, for--and I know some people disagree with this, but I think I am right on…

The current policies are causing systematic failures to the United States immigration enforcement process, creating, I would argue, an invitational posture that is leading to a humanitarian crisis.