Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank Secretaries McHugh and James and Generals Odierno and Welsh for your distinguished service to our country and for coming here today to testify to this committee.

Is preparatory work ongoing for DAPA?

That means somewhere between $324 million and $484 million that would otherwise be spent to aid the processing of legal immigrants is not being spent for legal immigrants.

Those who come here legally are being penalized and yet those who come here illegally are facing a fee of zero dollars.

I am the son of a legal immigrant who, 58 years ago, came here, applied to come here legally and ultimately received U.S. citizenship.

The trend is all in the wrong direction in every mission area, and we do not see it stopping.

I would note your legal counsel is apparently authorizing you to spend money that is not authorized by statute.

You cannot point to any statutory language here today; is that correct?

Another major concern is the question of fairness, that executive amnesty benefits and, in fact, gives preferences to those who are here illegally and it does so to the detriment of legal immigrants.

If there is, indeed, something being done that is called preparatory work, I would like to know what it is.

I would certainly encourage that assessment.

I just want to remind each of the three of you of the terms of the injunction, because the injunction prohibits--enjoins the United States from implementing, quote, ``any and all aspects or phases of the DAPA program,'' which is…