Thank you very much. Welcome. Just a couple of things. First of all, brief statement. And then I'd like to ask you about some of these questions, including giving you an opportunity, perhaps to elaborate on the question that Senator Holly was asking. But first of all, Mr. Chairman, let me express the frustration I have about this whole issue. We can flate everything into one thing, and never start talking specifically about the elements that we have to address. We've got a drug problem with fentanyl. That's separate from immigration, but some of it comes in on the border. And that's a serious conversation, in my view, that deserves its own focus. Second, we have a labor problem. We need more H2A and H2B visas. And I believe that could be dealt with and addressed separately to try to meet the needs that many of our employers have, and also to get some more control and management on the border. Third, we've got these young people who are not so young now, many of whom have served in the military, but they were brought over by their parents when they were seven or eight or nine years old. And we have one who's a graduate of UVA Medical School, and he has an uncertain status. In the only country he's ever really known is the United States, and he's a big contributor. We should be dealing with the dreamers separately. And then fourth, we've got an incredible challenge at the southern border, and an emerging challenge at the northern border. So whether you want to use the term crisis or not, it is a very serious problem. Even two million people show up at your door, that's a problem, because we don't have the capacity to accommodate that. And probably our toughest issue. Now, some of these issues are because Congress has failed to act. I think Senator Lee made some really good points about parole, but that's within our jurisdiction to define what that is. And if we do nothing, how can we blame and administration for trying to do something that makes sense to try to get some control over the border? So this is on Congress, and Senator Cruz, maybe I would use the term crisis at the border, because two million people showing up, you know, that's a really serious problem. But it's not as though that any individual who has Mr. Mallorca's job, whether in the Trump administration, the Biden administration, can control a lot of what happens. And the thing that we're not acknowledging here is that if you have two million people showing up, because of various factors that make them so desperate, that they'll even come with their children, a war in Ukraine, a rogue rebel group showing up to Syria alone, chopping off hands of 16-year-old kids, who then apply for refugee status, or fail states in Cuba, in Venezuela, in Nicaragua, and people being so desperate, they're willing to risk walking through the Darian gap. I mean, Secretary Mallorca's can't handle that, and I mean, you can't stop those factors. You have nothing to do with them. You've got to deal with the consequences of them. And my view is that each one of these elements that I've described has an urgency of its own, and requires focused attention, including some of these legal questions that Senator Cruz raised, and Senator Lee has raised. That's just, by way of background, to express my own frustration about what I see as a failure of Congress to do its part. Now, Secretary Mallorca, I want to give you a chance to address the questions that Senator Holly was raising, and just take a minute to do that. Thank you, Senator. So let me explain the program that we announced and have been implementing since January 5th, because it's been tremendously successful. We were encountering, but quickly, we were encountering a significant number of individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. And with respect to Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, specifically, it's extremely difficult to remove individuals from those countries because of the status of a lack of diplomatic relations. We were seeing in one month up to 90,000 encounters of individuals from those four countries in between our ports of entry in one month. And what we did, because we do see tremendous tragedy at the hands of the smuggling organizations, is develop a safe, lawful, and orderly way for them to come to the United States, instead of placing their lives and their life savings in the hands of the smugglers. We have seen a 95% drop in the number of individuals from those countries encountered at our southern border in between the ports of entry, because people will take a lawful, safe, and orderly path and not take an irregular path at the hands of smugglers. Thank you. I want to go to fentanyl. Senator Cornyn led a Codell to Mexico, and it was tremendous and constructive, and I want to thank him for that. Senator Lee was on that. There was an interaction with the president of Mexico, led by Chris Murphy and also by Jerry Moran, senators, who confronted the president about the precursor drugs that are coming into Mexico from China, and then used in the manufacturing fentanyl that comes up to the United States. And they asked and received what I heard was a very strong commitment on the part of the president of Mexico to address China. We don't really have that opportunity, but to address China about stopping those precursors. That's a level of cooperation that we need more. If you agree. Yes, indeed, and we've spoken as well with our Mexican counterparts about the need to interdict the precursor chemicals as well as the manufacturing. All right. And President Obrador had a real objection to all the guns that are coming from the US into Mexico and then ending up in the hands of cartels that just commit unspeakable violence with them. Are we doing all we can to cooperate with the president to keep our guns from going south? Yes, we are. Senator. Now, you have authorities under Section 702 of FISA. Is that helpful at all to you with respect to addressing the fentanyl crisis? It is extraordinarily helpful. We have over the years stopped a terrorism, a terrorist from arriving in the United States using our 702 authority. Our intelligence collection capabilities with respect to foreign nationals. What are the concrete steps we can take to try to alleviate the pressure on the southern border? That you would recommend that we pay more attention to. I would say there are multiple. Number one, first and foremost, we have to fix our broken immigration system. Everyone agrees it is broken. Number two, we need to build safe, lawful and orderly pathways so people do not place their lives in the hands of smugglers. We have to cut the smuggling organizations out and we have to reduce irregular migration and build lawful pathways. Number three, we have to address the root causes. What you spoke of at the very outset. Why do people leave their homes, their countries of origin, to travel through multiple countries to ultimately reach the United States? Who else were? Because we are seeing enormous migration throughout the entire country. My final minute, let me ask you about the northern border. This is Vermont in New York as well. We are seeing a surge between October 1 and December 31, 2022. CPP apprehended 1146 migrants crossing into the U.S. through the Swanton sector. That is up in northwest Vermont. During that same period in 2021, it was only 136 migrants. More are crossing from the United States into Canada at the northern border. What are we doing about the situation of migrants from the U.S. traveling to Canada and Canada to the U.S.? So we are very focused on that senator, as I mentioned earlier in my testimony, and what we announced just last week is a perfect example of our focus. We finished, we promulgated the safe 3rd country agreement with Canada to bring greater enforcement authority to both our countries with respect to encounters in between the ports of entry. Thank you. Just before I yield back, I would just say to all of my colleagues, we can have whoever happens to be the Secretary of Homeland Security, and bring them in and beat them up. Or we can do our job. And my hope is we could do our job. I yield back.