The current effective numbers don't work.

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

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.

the illicit activity does have some serious repercussions to border communities and residents.