It's coming from wildfires. They're coming from Canada. They relate to combustibility that we've talked about already in forests, it tracks back to the changes in the climate that we are experiencing as a result of fossil fuel emission.

I have also been pleased with the Biden administration's handling of Title 42's expiration.

We cannot allow these criminal networks to operate with impunity and endanger our homeland security and public safety.

This bill would go back to honoring that treaty and returning that land.

There are solutions here. They don't need to be partisan solutions.

I am glad that we are having this hearing to examine threats posed by Transnational Criminal Organizations to the U.S. homeland.

One of the remedies to this is, let people apply for asylum at U.S. consulates or from their home countries so that they can see whether they are eligible or not.

Streamlining asylum processing and allowing migrants to apply for legal protection before they get to our border is smart policy.

The air quality warnings in New York City right now are so bad that we are I think only behind New Delhi in terms of global bad air quality.

It's coming from wildfires. They're coming from Canada. They relate to combustibility that we've talked about already in forests.

I am glad to be holding this hearing to examine threats posed by transnational criminal organizations to the U.S. homeland.

I support those things. They don't. Fine. Leave that conversation for another day.

I have introduced a bill--or I'm introducing a bill soon to stiffen penalties for dealers that fail to conduct background checks that they are legally required to conduct.

Thank you very much again, Ranking Member Grassley, for making this a bipartisan hearing.

I would close by asking unanimous consent that we put into the record the report that was done by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission during the Trump administration.

the reality is that because these TCO treats emanate from outside our border, because the violence, the taking advantage of people who are fleeing poverty, fleeing persecution all originates or primarily originates in Central, South…

I think it is important that everyone in this Congress understand the importance of staffing for your agency so that you can do this work.

It is disappointing, I think, that my colleagues across the aisle are so eager to overturn anything the Biden administration does that they do it before they even see it.