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The crime rate is lower at the border than other places.

I would like to follow up on some of, see where we are on the services.

I certainly want to invite you there, because the border area, Laredo, Corpus, the valley, used to be part of the San Antonio.

Mr. Chairman, thank you so much. And Ranking Member also. Secretary, sorry about being late.

Fort Sam Houston, the cemetery at Fort Sam Houston is very important to San Antonio and South Texas.

San Antonio is the fastest growing community for veterans in the country.

Last year we passed it from 250 to 400. I pushed very hard on that. That hadn't been done in decades.

I would agree. I would agree.

I know that is the furthest thing from the truth, but let's get this fixed, right?

There is a perception issue that the services are doing other things other than training and fighting to win wars.

It cannot just be words, it has to be actions. We owe that, at a minimum, to our family members.

We need to do it not in a political way, but in a bipartisan way.

I will stand to make sure that we do the 20-year investigation, so that they can get and find out what we did right; what we did wrong.

The American people deserve nothing less.

We cannot say, hey, we left them behind; we're not going to give them a visa to get out of there, right?

We must act on it now because failure to do that will jeopardize in the future the lives of other brave American men and women.

I cannot sit here on March 19th knowing what's going on in Ukraine now, knowing that we have an Article 5 responsibility.

If that is not an indication of a broken, broken policy and broken system, I do not know what it is.