Jimmy Gomez

My point--that's exactly my point. Everybody always makes it seem that this is like--that there's this big magnet that draws immigrants to this country and it's just here.

And we know, because of that, you have a situation where people are getting sick in these facilities, and then putting the kids and the people whose immune systems are compromised into more vulnerable positions. We definitely have a lot of…

And they know about the conditions on the border, they know about the risk that they are taking, but they are leaving some desperate situations. So the way you make it so that they don't want to leave is that you make things better for…

I mentioned this article in the Oversight hearing. It is actually a ProPublica article, entitled: ``Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke about Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes.''

With her kids. She was one of the folks, and she asked for a credible fear asylum hearing, and she went through the process. That is why we have this process, so that we don't end up with just a backlog at the border that is more dangerous…

Correct. And what we were trying to remind them is that, by international law, by U.S. law, these migrants had a right to present themselves for asylum and then ask so that they can be processed. They ended up getting in. It was the woman…

Yes, correct. Customs and Border Protection refused to let us in to see it. So the migrants sat down. We sat down with them. We got there around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and we didn't leave until the next day, around 7 a.m. So we spent…

Yes, at Otay Mesa. We spent the night at the Mexican side of the border, literally on the line, and we were there just to observe migrants to present themselves for asylum. They were on U.S. soil. They presented themselves. They were told…

To discuss how to address the defects of this technology.

This President claimed that he was the only one that could fix all our issues. Well, he's proven that he's the only one that can make them even worse than they were before he started.

I believe it was Jeff Sessions that said that it was to be a deterrent for families to come up here.

I spent the night at the border in California with refugees that were seeking asylum. I know what some of their conditions and some of what they're dealing with.

That is not what I am asking.

I am kind of keeping that in mind with the questions I am about to ask.

So does the FBI train personnel on the potential inaccuracies and biases of facial recognition algorithms?

How does the FBI combat the human tendency to trust computer-generated results?

A lot of this also revolves around training.

I think about the transgender and non-binary communities, and we have seen reports that show that black women are more likely to be misidentified than any other group.

I have a lot of concerns regarding the false-positive rate of the technology, racial bias in the technology, gender bias.

I feel that we are stumbling into the future without really understanding how much liberty we are giving up for how much security.

In the history of this country, we have always had this debate and this goal of trying to balance security with liberty.

That just means that it is more important that Congress acts.

It is always that balance between innovation and protecting individual rights and civil liberties.

We are not anti-technology and we are not anti-innovation.

I think that you are seeing the--both parties and across the ideological spectrum showing some reservations about the use of this technology.