This provides assistance to the States for incarceration of criminal aliens. It has, in my view, been a very successful program.

the Federal Government must at a minimum live up to its financial obligations to compensate for the cost of these failures borne by the States.

I think you are going to see in the appropriations process or through maybe amendments on the floor this program being restored, as it was last Congress.

I commend you on your choice of Mr. Bersin for the Border Czar.

I think one of the flaws has been tracking out-going cargo, currency, weapons going into Mexico.

I think the administration does make a mistake by not using the term terrorism.

I think the fusion centers play a vital role in protecting the American people.

The access to NCIC, I think--is important for Tribal areas to have that access.

I believe, as I know Chair Harman does, that privacy and security, when done right, can coexist and flourish together.

The challenge for us in Government is to try to ensure that we don't interfere with the ingenuity of the private sector in being able to put the fixes into the security system that are necessary.

We defeat the terrorists through intelligence. Good intelligence, that is probably the most important weapon we have on this war on terror.

The National Applications Office is a glaring example, in my view, of a homeland security intelligence program gone wrong.

An effective homeland security intelligence capability requires that key State, local, and tribal law enforcement at least be integrated into the homeland security enterprise.

We will not violate the Constitution in the name of national security; that is what defines us from the terrorists.

I think this has been a very successful program, and if anything we should look at expanding it in the Congress, not criticizing it.

I think that Congress needs to appropriate more money for this program to expand it.

There are few programs that we put in place in Congress that I get as much positive feedback about as this 287(g) program.

I don't want anything that comes out of this hearing to disturb that.

I think the American people are frustrated by the illegal immigration issue, but when they see illegal immigrants come into this country and commit crimes, they find that to be intolerable and unacceptable.

I am very concerned as a former prosecutor that some of these individuals could, in fact, get into--if they are moved into the United States...

This is an affront to the American taxpayer.