Mike Cloud

We only save our Nation when everybody in every walk of life stands up and is courageous.

That's a very good point.

I find it interesting that when I travel, many immigrants actually understand and are more concerned even than people who have been kind of in the boiling pot of what's happening in America.

This whole thing has really been bizarre, and it's caused a massive distrust from the American people.

I think it is about time that we get back to talking about what happened because vaccine hesitancy is an issue.

I have a concern when the White House is making decisions based on political science versus real science.

I do find it odd that part of the communication was scheduling the communication and the concern that the union and the Biden Administration might stand apart from a messaging standpoint.

And I do want to echo what Mr. Guest said about we have nothing but appreciation for the members of CBP and appreciation for the understanding and--that we need to get you the resources that you need to do your job, and you are in a very…

We know it is not feasible to build a wall from sea to shining sea, that we are not going to build a wall from RGV to San Diego.

We are incredibly frustrated. And I don't want you to feel when you leave here that we are intentionally taking our frustration out on you.

I will fight as hard as I can as a member of this committee to make sure that we are hiring new agents.

We shouldn't be creating exclusions or exceptions or creating--redefine parole and all these different kind of things, that we need to do what the law says and not make exceptions to what the law says.

It seems to me that the hang-up is on the word 'all,' in the sense, like, until we get that number to zero, we will never have--

What efforts are being made--because most who leave and come back, I don't think were asked to leave in the first place, and so what is there in place to make sure that they understand that there is no reprisal or any sort of action to be…

One of my major concerns is just our shipbuilding capacity here in the United States and our ability to keep pace.

And of course that is drug trafficking as well that is coming in, and we have, you know, had drugs wash up on our shore, you know, in our district a number of times.

I know I have been a fan of the area's stats that were being used and deployed and would certainly advocate for those to continue to have their use along our southern border.

Thank you, Administrator. Appreciate you being here.

All of this part, of course, in proper context that there is a right way to come to our country in an illegal way, and every illegal entry is dollars to a cartel.

I mean, what we are seeing is that at an administration shift we had 70 percent drop roughly with no change roughly in funding and actually a slight bump-up in manpower.

We know they hoarded PPP, they silenced the centers, they blocked investigations into the Wuhan Lab.

We have to secure the border first.

Yet, what we have seen over the last year is the continued operation of the border being even more a sieve.

Last year we were told that we were going to plus up the budget, and because of it, we would be able to secure our border.

The Biden administration cannot find 42,577 children who are going to, quote, 'sponsors,' many of whom are connected to cartels.