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“I understand the hope of so many of the Dreamers I have had the privilege of meeting.”
“As the threat landscape continued to evolve, so did our approach to keeping our communities safe.”
“The impact of climate change, extreme weather events, the reason people are fleeing their homes is quite significant.”
“We in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.”
“The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.”
“What we have had to do in the Biden/Harris administration is build from the ground up our humane, orderly and safe immigration system.”
“I am extraordinarily proud of the men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”
“It's not a monolithic challenge, the border.”
“In the years immediately following 9/11, our focus was on the foreign terrorist who sought to harm us within our borders and threaten our interests and assets abroad.”
“We spoke of the responsibility to manage borders throughout the region in a humanitarian way that follows the law, which means that those who qualify for relief in a particular country are granted that relief and those who don't are repatriated.”
“We are rebuilding our immigration system. We are rebuilding humanitarian, safe and orderly pathways for individuals to make their claims here in the United States.”
“Ultimately, the first major evolution in the terrorist threat emerged in the form of the homegrown violent extremist - the individual in America who was radicalized by a foreign terrorist organization's ideology. That became the most prominent terrorism-related threat to the homeland.”
“My parents brought my sister and me to the United States to escape the communist takeover of Cuba. They sought to build their life and raise their children in a democracy in which the rule of law served to protect the people rather than operate as an instrument of oppression.”
“We do not tolerate any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant, period.”
“Americans have witnessed the costs of allowing politics to pervade intelligence.”
“As a prosecutor, the law and the facts of a case were my foundation and my guide, and they have remained my North Star ever since.”
“We are seeing expressions of violent extremism born of false ideologies, false narratives, ideologies of hate, and we are seeing the potential connectivity to violence which is where we step in.”
“The principles of homeland and security have been tremendously important in shaping my life.”
“Oh, do not underestimate the capabilities of the career personnel in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the number of distinguished leaders that we have in that wonderful organization that does such tremendous work.”