Henry Cuellar

I agree. I mean, Congress should pass the DREAM Act, a worker's comp - I mean, a worker's plan. We should have all that full immigration reform.

But the Administration needs to make those decisions. That is, if they have to return some people, and say, 'Go back and follow the right way to do this, and then go through a port of entry,' then go ahead and do that.

Well I do agree with the Stay in Mexico, the protocol. But I think we need to do more, to protect those individuals, who stay there.

Look, right now, we're getting people from Saudi Arabia, China, India, Bangladesh, and, of course, Cuba and Venezuela.

We need to make our legal system work better.

But the most important thing, is they got to be able to enforce the repercussions, because if you don't enforce the repercussions...

Absolutely. I support a guest-worker plan.

Look, there are enough -- and with all respect to the V.P., there are enough laws on the book right now that can return people back.

Yes, look, after all, the migrants are human beings, and we've got to treat them like human beings.

The men and women in green, the men and women from Homeland, they need to get the support.

They are being used as political pawns to get publicity.

Look, first of all, we need solutions, and not theater.

If you don't enforce the repercussions...

I support a guest-worker plan.

There are enough laws on the book right now that can return people back.

They need to get the support. They are good men and women.

The migrants are human beings, and we've got to treat them like human beings.

We need solutions, and not theater.

I would like to clarify for any of my colleagues who might be concerned that these three offshore lease sales provided through the Inflation Reduction Act are somehow being rushed through or will be conducted with insufficient…

I just want to see where we are in the remediations and any sites that we have in San Antonio.

There is a lot of concerns down there.

I think there are three stakeholders that we need to listen to, besides Congress, about the border issues: the immigration activists, number one; and number two, our men and women at the border; and number three, our border communities.

You keep mentioning the broken system, I guess the Trump administration did, but there was not any legislative changes.

If you look at the expedited removal, if you use Title 42, it will take from 1 to 2 hours.

There are over one million final deportation orders that have still not been executed.