Madam President, I know there are a number of Senators on the floor who wish to speak on unrelated matters. I wish to speak on the underlying bill. I believe Senator Whitehouse and maybe Senator McCaskill and Senator Bennet wish to speak…

I will be glad to defer to them under those circumstances and then ask to be recognized following those 6 or 7 minutes.

Madam President, I want to speak on the underlying bill, particularly on the Sessions amendment to the bill, but let me just precede that with some more general comments. I was very concerned when I read in the most recent publication of…

I think it would be a mistake for the administration to use administrative action like deferred action on a categorical basis to deal with a large number of people who are here without proper legal documents.

There is a war going on, as you know, and I worry that the Mexican Government may not be poised to win that war.

I worry that what we are doing is not turning the direction of the escalating violence around, and there is more that we need to do.

I would just like to respectfully suggest to our Chairman and our current Chair that it might be good to have all Members of the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, briefed in a classified setting on what is going on in Mexico.

I do not think it is anywhere near the point where we can say that our border is secure.

I support the Merida Initiative, which I know you support and are responsible for implementing in large part.

I am very concerned that some of the assets that could be deployed not only to help quell the violence in Mexico, but also keep our borders secure, are not being deployed because of unnecessary foot dragging.

I am really very troubled by the fact that, as Senator Sessions documented in his questions, that the lack of attention and diligence, and frankly, sloppiness, in your response to this Committee's questionnaire.