Forcing the Coast Guard to curtail air and surface operation by more than 25 percent, reducing essential missions including migrant and drug interdiction and port security operations is no way to achieve border security.
Thompson highlights negative impacts of budget cuts on Coast Guard operations.
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At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.
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