So, if this Cuban migrant issue gets much larger than what it is now, if it continues to grow in its trends, it is your testimony here today that you will have to pull resources from drug interdiction to deal with the migratory crisis.

I know that on her 18th birthday, she traveled to Lebanon. Is that correct? And she had opened an all-girls school near the Syrian border.

How many girls are enrolled?

But my point on that front is the next step after the education is to empower women to have a place in both the business and civic life of a country.

the disconnect between how society feels about it and some of these government leaders is pretty stark.

Because of the repression in Cuba, it's no wonder that so many Cubans are boarding makeshift rafts in the middle of the night to seek a better life.

This hearing of the subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues will come to order.

Often you have heads of state, but somehow it stops when you get into Central America.

Obviously, it is deeper issue about the representation in Congress.

we are spending a lot of money in these countries--a lot of money--on things unrelated to this.

I am not here to pick on the State Department, as you know.

I am just profoundly impressed always by just their patriotism, their commitment, their love for the United States, and how they represent us overseas.