"Can you describe a circumstance in which the evidence would be such that DHS would say the trigger is not satisfied, that border security is not there?"
"Unfortunately, it is the only hurdle that matters because receipt of this RPI status is the amnesty."
"I want to thank my colleagues and the millions of Americans who have lifted up the citizens of West who have been suffering through that tragedy."
"The legalization provisions of the bill make widespread fraud very likely if this, in fact, goes into effect."
"I want to understand. It goes back to the point I said that sometimes saying apprehensions are down is signs of success and at other times the argument seems to be apprehensions are up."
"Thank you for the excellent work that you and your agency have done, in particular over the last week in dealing with and apprehending the Boston bomber."
"Unfortunately, S. 744 puts the legalization of the illegal population before the completion of the necessary tools to avoid the creation of a new illegal alien population in the future."
"I think we should all be champions of legal immigrants, making the system work, and not just welcoming but celebrating legal immigrants."
"Thank you both for your testimony today and thank you also for your service at a time of great risk throughout the world."
"My office received the text of this bill at 2:25 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17th, five days ago."
"the bill introduced by you and Senator Rockefeller, the 'American Infrastructure Investment Fund Act' is, as I understand it, an important strategic legislative effort to establish a $5 billion fund t..."