"I do believe that your Department can be the stumbling block to comprehensive immigration reform."
"You do not want the Department of Homeland Security to be the stumbling block to comprehensive immigration reform for this country and it could happen. So get in the game."
"It is something that this subcommittee has had a lot of conversations about even during the last Congress."
"I do want you to know that we do think about that and we see it and we do thank you so much for your service."
"That conversation will not be being had with Members of Congress or the American people without asking this critical question of is the border secure."
"I think many of us ... see an opportune time in our country, a sort of a pivotal time, a historic pivot perhaps, to get some sort of immigration reform done."
"At the same time we are asking you, can you tell us exactly how you are doing?"
"the same question that the American people are going to ask; and that is whether or not we have a high degree of comfort or confidence in whether or not our borders are secured."
"We have an opportunity to do comprehensive immigration reform."
"In my view I think a better way to the state of border security is how effective we are at keeping bad people or bad things out of the country."
"I think we have an opportunity as a country to actually get something done on this very important issue this year perhaps."