Ron Johnson

I think we can all agree, this is a humanitarian crisis.

Love thy neighbor as thyself.

But, there are things that are going to be far more effective and far less costly.

Well, I hope if he is not released, they act more vigorously.

I think most Americans look at that and go, yes, we are incentivizing people to come here.

I really believe if we are going to improve the economies of Central America, the best way we can do that--because it has been proven, we are the engine of global economic growth--if we get our own economy in order.

Is the State Department, is President Obama as outraged as I think most Americans are by the Mexican Government's mistreatment of Sergeant Tahmooressi?

We want to show true compassion. I think the point that a lot of us are making here today is true compassion really would be to prevent this from happening.

I cannot think of a more humane thing to do, even though it maybe sounds a little cruel, than to deter parents from sending their children to the United States.

Well, but understand, we have been talking about comprehensive immigration reform, and again, that does create incentives.

I have always said that the way to secure the border is, yes, we need to probably beef up fencing, we maybe need to beef up personnel. But, the No. 1 thing we have to do is we have to reduce or eliminate, even better, all the incentives we…

We have to stop the flow. And, we have 57,000 human disasters on our border.

How come we have only deported, what is it, Senator McCain, 1,700, when the number is closer to 10,000 or 11,000?

But, we have to change those laws.

So, how long does that take to determine those couple things?

We have to come to a decision in this country whether we are going to have totally open borders or we are going to have a legal immigration system.

So, are we following those expedited procedures? So, if we have illegal immigrants coming from Mexico, are we actually expediting those procedures?

What is the timeline for deportation? I mean, how long does it take to go through this adjudication process?

We are creating that incentive.

Why do we not kind of reorient our thinking, realize that we cannot spend $300 million and really expect to even make a dent in improving the condition of those countries.

But, we are basically relying on their statistics in terms of how many people they send back?

As nice as those posters look like, they will do nothing, nothing in comparison to what planeload after planeload of children being returned to their families in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador would do.

From my standpoint, what is causing all the illegal immigration in this country is we are actually incentivizing it.

We are trying to stop human trafficking. Are we actually increasing it, because we have smugglers earning $3,000 per child?

A very low percentage