Mike McCaul

His goal was to replace his military with the national police force, which makes sense.

I think I am diplomatic. I know this one is not a diplomatic issue.

I think President Calderon believes there is sort of a turning point, which was encouraging.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels when he took office in 2006.

The drug cartels do intimidate and coerce the civilian population. They do effect the conduct of the Mexican Government.

I introduced legislation requiring the State Department to classify drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Over the past 5 years, more then 40,000 men, women and children have been brutally murdered by insurgents.

I urge all of my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, to stand against such cuts.

Is it the policy of this administration to allow noncriminal aliens to stay in this country and apply for work permits?

So call this whatever you want, but when administration officials say that through the New York Times, it appears to me that the administration is saying, 'Look, if you are a noncriminal alien we are just going to allow you to stay in the…

I hope you factor that in in these cases.

I think that is the core issue with this new policy.

What I was confused about is when this policy came out and it caused some controversy--I think a lot of my constituents view it as an amnesty program; I think most of my constituents do not agree with amnesty.

Last time I checked, Article II Section 3 of the Constitution states that the President 'shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'

Instead of offering incentives for people to break the law we should be making it more difficult to cross the border and even harder to get a job once they are here illegally.

Telling illegal aliens that we are not really looking for them unless they commit additional serious crimes is a tragic mistake and will only serve to encourage more illegal immigration.

Our country has made a series of mistakes, I think, when it comes to immigration reform, without serious border security and serious interior enforcement.

We are either a Nation of laws or we are not, and telling illegal aliens that we are really not looking for them unless they commit additional serious crimes is a mistake.

I think when you have the potential to administratively close hundreds of thousands of removal cases it sends a message, and that message is clear: That if you make it past the border you are scot-free.

I do not believe in amnesty. I don't believe that what Ronald Reagan and the Democrats did in 1986 created amnesty.

Telling the American people that the border is more secure than ever is, at best, a disservice; the reality is that, according to the Mexican Migration Project, nearly 97% of illegal immigrants who try to cross the border eventually…

I am very concerned--I know others are, as well-- that the message that this administration is sending will lead to strains on the Border Patrol's resources as potential illegal immigrants may surge across the border.

Let me also take a moment to publicly acknowledge the hundreds of men and women who are working virtually around the clock to restore America's rare earth production capacity at Mountain Pass.

We remain on time and on budget in constructing what will be the most technologically advanced, energy-efficient, and environmentally superior rare earth manufacturing facility in the world.

Simply put, I strongly believe we can and should do the same.