Let us all agree that we have a humanitarian crisis on our border that needs to be addressed.

I would like to provide the full and complete picture, in terms of removals and returns, which is what I think the American people would really view as deportation.

If we have asylum cases, those should be requested in the home countries.

The way you stop the flow is to change the realities on the ground in Central America.

Our goal needs to be stopping the flow.

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

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

find out what works and do more of that.

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

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

I am happy that he is actually going to get a hearing today. I am hoping he gets released immediately.

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

love thy neighbor as thyself.

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 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…

Is that also going to produce an incentive or inducement for more people to get into this country?

a very low percentage

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

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.

Have we not been doing that for years? I mean, literally, have we not been trying to do these things for years?

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

Should not that be the goal?

we have a Bible study group that meets here in the Capitol.

we are creating that incentive.

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