Roger Noriega: “These determined and deadly enemies of the United States have made substantial progress in the last 6 years to expand…”

Engaging the totalitarian regime of Cuba to the exclusion of the 11 million people in Cuba I think is a grotesque mistake.

Their expanding activities are the result of a conscious, offensive strategy to carry their fight to our doorstep, which receives indispensable support from the regime of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

No event in recent years has underscored the vulnerability of our Southwest border as dramatically as the wave of illegal immigrants, many of them children, crossing in record numbers last year.

I applaud you and other Members of the subcommittee for your continued efforts to study and expose the evolving threats to the U.S. homeland.