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On the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas:
"The Houston DA's office [in] Harris County is one of the finest. I believe this could be a capital murder charge. [The DA's office is] very good at this. But the point is here is we're seeing this too often now, and I think you're going to see this story repeat itself over and over and over again. A little 12-year-old girl who was raped and then thrown off a bridge and was killed. Just horrific. When you have [more than seven] million that were caught and released and then you have about two million [known] gotaways, this is what you're going to get.
"When Secretary Mayorkas changed the rules to his border patrol agents and said, 'hey you don't have to detain aggravated felons,' as required under federal law, that's when all this started. You're seeing aggravated felons coming into the United States and being released into society."
On President Biden's weak executive orders:
"There are so many [illegal immigrants] in the country now, and these are little band-aid measures. We have a criminal enterprise operating in the United States right now: drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, [and] rapes. Unfortunately, you're going to see more of this until he gets back to the policies that were working ... Remain in Mexico, I passed out of my committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee. If we just did that one thing, that they have to remain in Mexico pending the adjudication of their political asylum [applications], it would change everything, but they refused to do it."
On the Biden administration's failure to secure the southern border:
"I chaired the Homeland Security Committee for six years, and I was a federal prosecutor that did this. Look, immigration reform is not border security, and that's what they're trying to conflate, and it is not the same thing. You need to secure the border, then talk about immigration reform. It is not the same issue. To say that the border is Republicans' fault when on day one … this president rescinded all policies that were working. ... Remain in Mexico [and] all the things that were working he rescinded on day one. That has had a direct cause and effect on what's happening down there. And don't take my word for it; the border patrol themselves tell me that all the time."
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