Chairman Green: We have a secretary [Mayorkas] who has; the law is very clear, "Shall Detain". It doesn't say, 'create policies to allow for people to be immediately be released into the country', it says, "Shall Detain". And that was not done. In fact, systems were created to do just the opposite of that. That is a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. It is actually wilful and systemic, and when courts rule you can't do that, he just repackaged it, and continued to do just that.
Garcia: Donald Trump speaks about immigrants with the same rhetoric that Hitler did.
Garcia: The way he [President Trump] supports white nationalism, the way he supports white supremacy, and those kinds of comments, are completely offensive to immigrants, and hopefully to all Americans in this country.
Jackson-Lee: Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an individual whose family fled the nazis, and then Cuba, before arriving here in the United States…he is the first immigrant to serve as head of the Department of Homeland Security.
[what a coincidence that the first immigrant to serve in that position is flooding the country with illegal immigrants]
Higgins [quoting former Dean of House, Don Young]: "The republican party is primarily a party of businessmen. Democrat party is primarily a party of attorneys."
John Kirby [White House press conference]: [Biden] will be going to the dignified transfer [of service member remains] on Friday.
[only due to extreme blowback will he be attending]
Chairman Green: As soon as Secretary Mayorkas took over, those ICE detention facilities; there's one in California they're gonna shut because it's got eight people and it holds three thousand…the ICE detention beds have been consistently unfilled.
He has since decided to go.