You've put a lot of stock in this in your six-point plan that this is going to have a great effect of expediting the asylum claims and the removal.

Are more people remote working than there were before COVID?

my state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids, very, very sad situation, and it is coming from the southern border.

I mean, I would anticipate isn't the law that if you are denied a claim that you would be removed from the country?

Today we should also talk about the work the department is doing to protect the homeland from two other threats.

The name in and of itself has, I think, implications to all of us. I heard all about this all over the weekend of concern of sort of an Orwellian, you know, policing of speech.

The Administration failures at the border threaten the work of the rest of the department.

Frankly, I don't know why we would spend billions of dollars protecting the homeland without the capacity to protect our citizens from foreign actors and terrorist organizations.

deterrence is something that I don't think you've placed enough emphasis on.

I'm asking you right now will you commit to providing to this committee within 30 days all the raw data behind this report.

I am going to follow up on a topic we have talked about, I think it is about 13 months now.