Higgins [Biden/Mayorkas Border Crisis hearing]: Our southern border…is one hundred percent controlled by cartels on the Mexican side of that border…we've had nine million illegal crossings.
Higgins: Mr. Gelent, are you an attorney sir?
Gelent [ACLU] I am.
Higgins: When I was a cop we had a common saying, a bit of a chuckle; we say that, 'I've known many convicts I can trust in my life, and very few attorneys.' How does the ACLU feel about eighty-five thousand missing children? Think their civil rights might be being violated?
Gelent: Our view is that those children are not likely missing, that the sponsors don't simply answer the phone.
Higgins; The sponsors are not real. You know that, right? It's a racket. It's a sponsor racket. That's why they aren't answering the phone. That's why you can't find who they are.
Tim Ballard: [Traffickers] will take these children who are unaccompanied, and they will pair them, and they will instruct them to call this woman and this man, the clients of the smuggler, mom and dad. Border Patrol was noticing the same kids keep coming through. As the kid of the family…is that kid really with that parent, or is that kid being abused? Is that kid being used as a pawn in the game; in the trafficking criminal network's efforts?
Goldman: Do you know where the majority of those weapons of war come from, that the cartels use? The United States.
[as in Fast and Furious, you scumbag?]
Garcia: FBI crime data shows that in border communities, crime is actually fifteen percent lower than the national average.
[because most illegals leave the border area as fast as possible]
Garcia: This idea that we're somehow going to invade northern Mexico, which is being parroted by Donald Trump and the other republican candidates, is completely crazy.
[military action against cartels operating in Mexico, targeting the United States, must, and will, occur]
Ramirez: If the border is open, which we continue to hear, over, and over, and over again, then why is it that people are drowning in the Rio Grande?
Snodgrass [Biden/Mayorkas Border Crisis hearing]: Another community I just came back from is Chevak, Alaska. The only accessible route to Chevak, Alaska, is either by seaplane, or in the wintertime, snowmachines. I was asked to come there to do a Fentanyl response project presentation…the blue pills have made it into that community of less than eight hundred Alaskans.