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Let me assure you that we are indeed trying to prevent unlawful entries at our southern border.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
On the very first day in office, President Biden sent to the Hill, to Congress, a comprehensive package that would have meant so much to our ability to really manage the situation at the border, to really bring a broken immigration system that hasn't been reformed for decades, to really bring it into the present day, not just from a point of view of enforcement, but also realizing the opportunities that immigration brings to our country.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is incomprehensible that some states who stand to benefit from these highly effective enforcement measures are seeking to block them and cause more irregular migration at our southern border.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re operating within a system that is fundamentally broken. No one disagrees with that. We just can’t seem to agree upon the solution and a solution is long, long overdue. Within the broken immigration system that we are operating, we are managing the number of encounters and we are prepared to address the end of Title 42.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I really appreciated the openness with which the agents expressed their views, a couple of guys might have expressed them what I felt was unprofessionally, which was surprising to me because it's something I've never seen in the Border Patrol in my … eight years of person-to-person exposure.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're mindful of the fact that Title 42 is going to end early next week, we're also mindful of the fact that we have to coordinate with our partners, not just the nonprofit organizations with which we work very closely, not just cities along the border like El Paso, but also our international partners. So, we're moving as quickly as we can.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The breadth of these agencies is far greater than the immigration portfolio, the immigration system, our laws, have not been reformed for more than 40 years. The problem from administration to administration, regardless of party, is the fact that we are fundamentally working within a broken immigration system, and that is the foundational challenge, with respect to the border.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Well, we are devoting tremendous resources to address the border in a way that achieves its security and upholds its values, we are modernizing our systems at the border to expedite processing, bringing greater efficiency to it. We are intensely focused on this mission set, just as we are intensely focused on the mission sets that we confront as a department from top to bottom.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What we are doing is precisely what we announced we would do in April of this year, and we have indeed been executing on the plan.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Look, the border is secure, we are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I really appreciated the openness with which the agents expressed their views, a couple of guys might have expressed them what I felt was unprofessionally — which was surprising to me because it's something I've never seen in the Border Patrol in my… eight years of person-to-person exposure.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That lack of coordination wreaks problems in our very efficient processing.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
For the first time ever, our policy explicitly states that a non-citizen's unlawful presence in the United States will not, by itself, be a basis for the initiation of an enforcement action.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Far too many lives have been lost as individuals -- including families, women, and children -- take this dangerous journey.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
And numbers could rise further, from confusion over recent court orders and as smuggle continue to peddle misinformation to make a profit: we are prepared.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have brought Homeland Security Investigations to attack the smuggling organizations. Homeland Security Investigations's not just Homeland Security Investigations, Homeland Security Investigations's not just Homeland Security Investigations and Border Protection. But we're working very carefully with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a number of agencies within the Department of Justice, and, of course, our partners in Mexico, i think Federal Bureau of Investigation's scale and scope ; Federal Bureau of Investigation's tactics and strategy. Federal Bureau of Investigation's really unprecedented.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
With the Title 42 public health order set to be lifted, we expect migration levels to increase, as smugglers seek to take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants, we will continue to enforce our immigration laws.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are seeing a rise in misinformation and disinformation that is attempting to strike at the integrity of the election system and people's right to vote.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It works to ensure that the way in which we address threats, the connectivity between threats and acts of violence that are addressed without infringing on free speech, protecting civil rights and civil liberties, the right of privacy, this working group, internal working group, will draw from best practices and communicate those best practices to the operators because Governance Board does not have operational authority.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is our responsibility to be prepared for different scenarios. That is what we are doing, there is no question that if, in fact, we reach that number, that is going to be an extraordinary strain on our system. But we are preparing for it.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know where those 42 individuals are on the TSDB, the terrorist screening database, let me share with you what happens : They can be removed, they can be placed into custody for criminal prosecution, they can be cooperating in a law enforcement investigation, and I don't intend to provide that data publicly if it's law enforcement-sensitive. But we know where those 42 are, and I did not want to speak to the disposition of each and every one of them.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we have to be very mindful of the fact that we are addressing enemies, and those enemies are the cartels and the smugglers, and I will not provide our plans to them. We are going to proceed with our execution, carefully, methodically, in anticipating different scenarios.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Once the Title 42 Order is no longer in place, DHS will process individuals encountered at the border pursuant to Title 8, which is the standard procedure we use to place individuals in removal proceedings, nonetheless, we know that smugglers will spread misinformation to take advantage of vulnerable migrants. Let me be clear : those unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States will be removed.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to hear different perspectives from different backgrounds, different expertise, different experience.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have policy leaders in different areas, cabinet members from both parties. This is a nonpartisan collection of experts, from whom I will obtain advice, with whom I will share ideas.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
To ensure we are able to continue executing our critical mission with honor and integrity, we will not tolerate hateful acts or violent extremist activity within our Department.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have no information of a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl, what this is all about is planning and preparation to prevent any incident from occurring.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have fundamentally changed immigration enforcement in the interior.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The job has not gotten any easier over the last few months, and it was very, very difficult throughout 2021, i know apprehending families and kids is not what you signed up to do. And now we got a composition that is changing even more with Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and the like, it just gets more difficult.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Border Patrol agents could use additional personnel, additional funding, and Border Patrol agents're really going to push for it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rather, we will allocate our efforts, we will allocate our resources on those individuals who present a current public safety threat, a threat to national security, or a threat to our border security, and that is a very important principle.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Starting on January 22, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security will require that non-U.S. individuals entering the United States via land ports of entry or ferry terminals along our Northern and Southern borders be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and be prepared to show related proof of vaccination, these updated travel requirements reflect the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to protecting public health while safely facilitating the cross-border trade and travel that is critical to our economy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We accomplished a lot in this past year. We certainly have plans to do a lot more — and we will do it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need to ensure that we not only protect our houses of worship and all places of assembly, but that we become aware of the signs that someone is going down a path toward violence.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This kind of threat did not begin when this attack started yesterday, and it will not end with the hostages free.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are doing so by spreading information about what we know, so that the playing field, the landscape of law enforcement and public awareness more generally, is alert to the information that we have in our possession, so that we are all working on the same set of facts and all understand that the of the threat that is before us.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The threat of domestic violent extremists is a very great one.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are building legal pathways so individuals and parents do not feel compelled to place their children in the hands of the exploiting smuggling organizations.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can not communicate this message too strongly that individuals should not put their life savings in the hands of smuggling organizations that exploit their vulnerability, the border is not open.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's a scalable amount of money but we consider that quite significant, we're really investing a great deal of money, as well as attention and focus, on this program.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is a stressful challenge. That's why, quite frankly, we're working as hard as we are, not only in addressing the urgency of the challenge but also in building the capacity to manage it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
To see the insurrection, to see the horrific acts of Jan. 6 were not only personally devastating, but ... that created in me a commitment to redouble our efforts to fight hate and to fight one of the greatest threats that we face currently on our homeland, which is the threat of domestic terrorism.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are looking at that as recently as earlier today, the urgency of that also cannot be overstated.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The cruelty of the prior administration has come to an end.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
To see the insurrection, the horrific acts of January 6, were not only personally devastating, but created in me a commitment to redouble our efforts, to fight hate and to fight one of the greatest threats that we face currently on our homeland, which is the threat of domestic terrorism.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Senator... if I may strike at the fundamental point that I believe you are inquiring of, which is, will I follow the law and the execution of my responsibilities should I have the privilege of serving as the secretary of Homeland Security ? And the answer is yes, I will follow the law.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If I should have the honor of being confirmed, I will do everything I can to ensure that the tragic loss of life, the assault on law enforcement, the desecration of the building that stands as one of the three pillars of our democracy, and the terror that Avril Haines felt, Avril Haines colleagues, staff and everyone present, will not happen again.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
President-elect Biden is committed to cease funding for further construction of the border wall. I would execute President-elect Biden's commitment in adherence to the laws that guide us.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think President-elect Biden, and people who will be joining his incoming administration have spoken about the fact that there's a commitment to follow our asylum laws to enforce our asylum laws, and that means to provide humanitarian relief for those individuals who qualify for it onto the law, that can not be accomplished with just the flick of a switch and turned on and day one(.).
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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