So let me tell you what I hear, because I have visited, over the last 7 years, a lot of different land ports of entry.
We had another enormous surge, which has not really slowed, during the Biden administration, with individuals that have ...
During that same window of time, CBP interdicted over 10,000 pounds of fentanyl, the highest amount in our recorded hist...
This crisis is significantly straining the Federal Government's resources. It has invited active harm into our communiti...
Thank you. Ms. Sabatino, I want to continue this conversation that you had raised in your opening statement as well abou...
We recently concluded fiscal year (FY) 2021, where we saw the U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered over 1.7 mi...
At our last hearing on this issue on the ports of entry along the Southwest Border that we held in June we had encounter...
So then the question is, what happened to those legitimate documents then?
I know that is an allocation of priorities, and it is always going to be great if Congress will give us a little more mo...
Obviously, that has been a high priority on both sides of the aisle on non-intrusive inspections.
So your assumption is, at this point, if we have multiple agencies that come through, and obviously our land ports of en...
We have seen before, with areas like when Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was announced, the coyotes used ...
If we have everything on our side of the border ready to go and Mexico does not have their portion ready to go, that is ...
So you can actually prosecute those individuals that are imposters, that are showing legitimate documents, just not the ...
It is a very expensive process to be able to hire, train, and equip and be able to reach out to bring on additional folk...
But you expect that to take how long?
That is the $100,000 amount?
I would love to be able to maintain this conversation, to be able to keep this going, because this is one that needs to ...
