Martha McSally

This committee has pushed back pretty strongly on keeping the A-10 flying for its unique capabilities.

We have got to take advantage of where we have those asymmetries.

This is a long-term fight. How does that translate to your thoughts on force structure?

So our view is--and again we have got legislation on this--the percent that we have situational awareness of, and then percent we have operational control of, where we can actually intercept it.

What percent of the 2,000-mile border do you have situational awareness of? If something is breached, you see it.

The way that DHS has measured border security in the past has not been useful.

I represent southern Arizona, about 80 miles of the border, and we look forward to hosting you in our--the Tucson sector later this week.

The current effective numbers don't work.

When you said provide an alternative, an alternative to just random numbers, it would be to set strategic objectives in these theaters.

One of the things I would like to focus on is specifically the phenomenon of girls and women becoming radicalized.

Can we tie some sort of disincentive or incentive carrot and stick related to our other elements and leverage that they have got to shore this up otherwise we are going to stop or limit their ability to continue to violate this?

The 1 percent number sounds small, but again it is hundreds of thousands of people.

Is it not unreasonable to make students report and re-certify every single year that they are still on student status, otherwise their visa is revoked?

I feel like we are moving at the speed of bureaucracy while the bad guys are moving at the speed of broadband.

I want to ask--the next question is, I chair the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee.

This stuff needs to be looked at and employed I think very quickly and thoughtfully.

I think it is about toning down the way that Border Patrol carries itself in our communities and ensuring that we have a much better relationship.

If we don't have folks being recruited from the communities that these agents were sworn to protect, it is very difficult to understand really the historic legacy that borderlands have had.

We are not part of the problem here; we are part of the solution.

Look, this is America, not the Gaza Strip.

We have another one that is addressing the full new threat assessment of the Southern Border, the situational awareness, operational control, just a full fresh threat assessment.

Let's make sure if there is an investment in technology, that it has procurement guidelines and oversight and accountability to make sure it is not wasting taxpayers' resources.

I just want to, you know, remind ourselves that, even with the conversation that we have had, our intent needs to be to find where we can better equip these men and women that are out there serving with the guidance, the resources, and the…

None of them get out of bed in the morning and say, let's not secure the border.

We recently lost Manuel Alvarez in the Tucson sector because of the dangers of the type of job that they do.