Chairman Grothman [Border Crisis Hearing]: Unaccompanied minors coming into the country face enormous pressure to work illegal, full-time jobs, to support either themselves, their families abroad, or to pay off debts to cartels or their sponsor…a lot of times, these people that come across, they are obligated by the drug cartels who let them in here, to have to pay eight to twenty thousand dollars for that trip.

Biggs: Secretary Mayorkas implemented the CBP-One app, to streamline asylum appointments for migrants, allowing them to pre-register when they are near the US Border. Ostensibly, supposedly, there was geo-fencing that was going to be there, so that only when you get close to the border, then you could apply to CBP-One…it's not lawful, it is not legal. There is no authority for that. Even worse news is that cartels now are reportedly selling VPN services to migrants ,which allow them to pre-register for a US asylum appointment, and to ignore the geo-fencing system before they ever reach northern Mexico.

Biggs: DHS is now changing the categorization nomenclature [of terrorists illegally crossing border]. It's no longer going to be "on the terror watchlist", it will be, "national security risk", or something like that. Why? Why are you changing the language? Because it's easier to hide the reality of the gravity of the situation.

Sheriff Dannels [Cochise County, AZ]: Hundred percent camouflaged migrants being illegally smuggled by the cartels at a price tag that begins at around seven thousand dollars and up. These smugglers include juveniles being recruited via social media by the criminal cartels.

Sheriff Dannels: We had a hundred and twenty-one people booked in our jail just for failure to yield/ [high-speed] pursuits in five months.