Mike McCaul

It is shameful that we haven't had the will to take up comprehensive immigration and put this to rest.

I think what I have heard, that we are all in agreement that we don't want to surrender one part of Texas or one part of America to these drug cartel members, and we all want to see more resources going to protect these individuals.

The problem today is that--General McCaffrey, when you made the observation that there was never a taillight that turned on as the cars were going into Mexico, the problem we have today is that those ports of entry were designed…

I am going to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston with ICE, DEA, FBI to congratulate them.

I view the commitment of the present administration as a serious commitment to the needs of the border.

I believe it is flawed in terms of not taking into account drug trafficking.

I think the southbound flow of cash and weapons is the big issue.

I would submit that, as we draw down in the Afghan conflict, that it is my hope that we can channel those resources to this threat that we have right next-door in our backyard.

I will support that comprehensive immigration reform so that we can fight and people have a stake in the action.

If you want them to have a stake in the action, if you want them to be part of the solution and stand up and fight these cartels, we have to do something to let those people that are coming here be here legally.

I believe, No. 1, the resources are inadequate.

I think it highlights even more so that we need to be paying attention.

This makes the border that much more imperative that we have to get it secure.

You have my commitment on dealing with immigration. You have my commitment to go forward and realize that this just is more than a border problem; this affects every citizen in the United States.

I think, looking at the big picture, to sit there and use the language that said conducting business on the Texas border is tantamount to living in a war zone, I don't think that rhetoric helps, because I don't think it presents the real…

We simply must reform and have a guest-worker status where these people are protected by OSHA safety standards, minimum wage, et cetera.

If we cannot kill them with guns, we will kill them with drugs.

I think the focus--we are focusing on the border States. That is what we need to be focused on.

We must rationally and fairly both strictly enforce control of our borders with robust Federal law enforcement--as well as providing legal guest worker status.

Our economy is fundamentally dependent on more than 10 million illegal migrants now in the United States.

We cannot allow local U.S. Sheriff's Departments and State Authorities along our 2,000-mile border with Mexico to bear a disproportionate responsibility.

We need more money if we are going to do the job.

The United States must be a more effectively resourced partner to the government of Mexico.

Would America allow terrorists based in Canada to make nightly incursions into New York? The answer is a resounding 'No!'

Allowing a porous border is not only a threat to our citizens and Nation's food supply, but also a threat to our homeland security.