Carlos Gimenez

I want to make it very clear that I'm not here to advocate for digital anything.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on these critical topics.

For nearly a year, Ranking Member Thompson has been calling for TSA to require all passengers to go through TSA's own identity verification processes.

The policies that have been implemented by this administration and your Department in particular, have led to this catastrophic failure of our immigration in the United States.

Did you agree with those changes?

The actual threat of the cartels that are not 7,000 miles away, they are 20 miles away, they are 5 miles away, on the other side of the border that are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year, and we do nothing about it.

Where do you think we--where are we on that? How far along are we on that?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't, but I'm also now maybe laying the predicate for something else, which is resiliency.

Can I be as bold to say that 'reduce vulnerabilities' goes beyond that or should go beyond that?

The PRC, the CCP, is the world's greatest polluter by a factor of two.

American Samoa is American territory and I am concerned that we have episodic presence in American territory.

They are American citizens, they deserve American protection. So why aren't we there?

Illegal fishing by PRC vessels is depleting the tuna stocks off the coast of American Samoa.

These claims, if accepted, would adversely impact U.S. trade in the region.

The People's Republic of China presents the most direct challenge to this vision.

That's a pretty significant amount coming out of U.S. taxpayer money.

I get upset when I see injustice, when I see the human toll that is happening at our border in the name of politics.

The traffickers are always smarter than we give them credit for.

We have good laws on the books, we're just not enforcing them.

There is the crux of the matter. So we can fund $10 billion and put CBP agents locked and armed 2,000 miles on the border, and unless we change the policy, nothing changes.

Do you believe that the Biden administration policies have strengthened the Mexican cartels?

Seventy thousand Americans are being killed every single year by fentanyl and we are doing nothing about it.

In September, September 11, 2001, terrorists killed around 3,000 Americans and we went 7,000 miles, and we waged war for 20 years because 3,000 Americans were killed.

Historically, our adversaries have targeted the United States in the High North to undermine our national security.

The Arctic is critically important to the United States' strategic interests.