Henry Cuellar

So, again, I want to make sure we have the money for the personnel and the technology.

I can spend $36 million on a mile for fencing, and all I need is $100 to buy a ladder to take care of that particular fence.

The number of people with final removal orders on the non-detained docket continues to grow. ICE is not making this a priority.

And I understand this thing about the pay reform and we certainly--I know we might have some questions, but we want to work with you to make it work somehow on that and address any concerns that some of the members have.

Under the 2010 law, there was a 2010 law that called for every agency to make sure they set up their strategic plans, their performance measures, their mission, their vision, their goals, their objectives.

Mr. Chairman, again, thank you so much. And, again, congratulations on your chairmanship.

And one of the reasons we want to look at the measures is, for example, in your fiscal year 2024 request, it looks like CISA is shifting resources away from physical security programs in order to be more focused on cybersecurity missions.

But, here, we leave agencies to develop their own performance measures.

I also want to follow the line of questioning that the chairman brought up.

Congressman David Trone of Maryland--again, we welcome you and all the work that you are doing on fentanyl and other work like that.

I know Ms. Lauren Underwood, Illinois, welcome back, because she has been on the committee, and appreciate all the good work.

I mean, there's different challenges. When you look at the modernization effort and what challenges have, you know, you encounter, it's more than just an IT issue.

You know the old saying, the private sector can do it better, faster, more cost effective than the government can, but there is many of times where it doesn't fall that way.

We appreciate all the support Congress has given us in this area, and we are going to keep making sure that we are investing appropriately.

San Antonio Randolph Air Force Base, and Mr. Gonzales also represents part of San Antonio also, so anything around the San Antonio area is very important to us.

I think they can implement a policy like this, where you can treat the migrants with respect and dignity, and give them their day in Court at one of these joint processing centers and at the same time, enforce the law.

So we can put moneys in there, but you've got to have the right policies and those three things that I just gave you, the administration can do that.

Look, immigration reform, I support immigration reform. Look, our Republican friends are not going to come to the table on that, because they want to have the border secure. I understand that.

I will say this, President Obama did not have Title 42 and he was able to manage the border without Title 42. So there's a way of doing this.

The decision by the Supreme Court only buys the administration time to come up with the right policy. They're not there -- the Supreme Court has not the job to legislate. That's really up to Congress and to the administration.

We need to send them back and say, follow it away.

No. Even the $3 billion that you mentioned a while ago, that money is going to be used for processing, is going to be used for food and shelter, and transportation of migrants.

I think we need to have a pathway where they go through the bridges in an orderly way.

I think we need to send them back and say, follow it away.

Morale is not good, because they feel that the administration doesn't have their backs.