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If you don't mind, a little flowchart on that.

How much money goes into Florida? Nothing against Florida, but again it is--you understand where I am coming from.

The Operation Stonegarden Program that we have is incredibly important tool that we have to help primarily our border communities enhance their capability and the cooperation amongst the agencies that are there.

That is another program that I have been involved in from the very beginning.

FEMA's mission has always been to help solve some of our nation's toughest problems, regardless of the cause of those problems.

Well, I can say just generally speaking probably 75 percent of the people on the mission down there to secure our border are doing processing.

It would seem that people who are in our country illegally are under less scrutiny to use our air services than American citizens.

This should be at the border.

To finish this, we added in the fiscal year 2024 $10 million for additional expedited removal assistance.

So it sounds like the backlog is going to remain?

OK. I thought the Secretary was going another direction, but we can follow up.

So my question again, sir, is--so can you consider somebody on a monitoring system or a check-in to be part of the detained population, or do they have to be physically inside of a four-wall place?

I look forward to discussing with you the present fiscal year 2025 budget request.

Thank you for all the years of service that you have provided.

There is still the limit of the amount of money we have.

This is not, quite honestly, it is not the way I envisioned this program at the very beginning.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I congratulate you on the new role as chairman of this subcommittee and welcome and look forward to working with you in a bipartisan way.

As I mentioned, this is a program that, when our former chair, Kay Granger and myself were in Laredo, we saw the needs for this so we established this, I think 2013 or 2014.