Yes, we have to do a better job overall with that.

So I get all that, just thinking about how do we drive up the price of heroin?

I appreciate all of you for being here and I thank you.

Thank you so much Commissioner Kerlikowske.

This is certainly a public health epidemic.

I think cutting funding is wrong, for two reasons.

Especially since it is between two governments that have a friendly relationship.

In my State we are seeing a heroin epidemic, and I know a lot of that is coming over the Southern Border.

Yes, and it is like heroin on steroids, basically.

Maybe I am asking that of the wrong person, but I am the Chair of the Aviation Committee.

it has outlived its purpose and that you should be given the same tools as the Secretary had previously asked us.

This would be a more effective way to get everyone together, all working together, with the prosecution embedded?

there was clearly an impression at the time that somehow you could receive a permiso or pass if you made it to the United States.

In New Hampshire, we have a tremendous heroin epidemic, and previously I have heard from officials testifying before this Committee that the heroin is coming over on the land border, on the Southern Border.

Well, it seems to me that if your State and local counterparts will not cooperate with Homeland Security when it comes to a situation like we saw in San Francisco, obviously there is real danger to the public on this.

we are asking for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from a Central American country the same way as from contiguous countries

What is it that you need to increase interdiction? Is it more planes, more people? What do we need to understand?

The reason we are staying above completely sinking into the abyss is because of those partnerships.