You can't make fun of people that have had lands for generations and we got to respect those private property rights of those individuals.

For the President to come in and say that he's going to take land is just the wrong way.

We support a bipartisan amendment from Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas and Dan Newhouse of Washington State that would expand the H-2A program to non-seasonal ag workers.

I thank Chairman Smith and his staff for working with our office, and also the ranking member and his staff for working on making this a bipartisan amendment. I would like to speak about an amendment that will do a Western Hemisphere…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and the rest of the appropriators and the staff who are working very hard to get this emergency bill on the floor. This bill is important. I live on the border. I don't just go visit the border. I…

We have to provide this because, again, the Border Patrol agency cannot handle this, and, therefore, we need this particular processing center. Again, it is a good bill. Why should we wait for the Senate? We are the House of…

I want to thank Chairman Engel for yielding to me and for his leadership that he has provided in making sure that we develop a good working relationship with the Republic of Mexico. In fact, a few months ago, we also passed a U.S.-Mexico…

I think we need to make sure we keep giving retentions or some sort of--I do not know if it is hardship, locality, pay compensation in the proposed language.

I do not think your men and women wake up in the morning trying to see how they are going to hurt some of the immigrants.

the humanitarian crisis due to the influx of unaccompanied kids and families have created a burn on state and local jurisdictions including NGOS down there on the border.

So your men and women can do what they need to do and then we get those folks to do the changing of diapers and all of that.

I do agree with my colleagues that if there is a problem, there is a bad apple, we need to go after those bad apples.