A recent CBS / YouGov poll showing that 62 percent of U.S. voters support a new national program to deport all illegal immigrants from the United States.
The DHS chief also said the Biden administration is ready to defend the executive order against lawsuits and called for congressional action on the border.
At least 108,000 Americans died last year from drugs coming across the southwestern border, the Texas lawmaker said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.